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Do public attitudes affect conservation effort? Using a questionnaire-based survey to assess perceptions, beliefs and superstitions associated with frogs in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Jeanne Tarrant --- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, South Africa Donnavan Kruger --- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, South Africa Louis H du Preez --- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, South AfricaGlobally, amphibians are among the least appreciated vertebrates and are often negatively perceived by the general public. Such attitudes are particularly prevalent in South Africa, where fear, superstitions and myths associated with frogs are pervasive in some cultures. These attitudes... -
Thirty years of amphibian surveys in the Ukagurus Mountains of Tanzania reveal new species, yet others are in decline
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: H Christoph Liedtke --- Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC), Spain John V Lyakurwa --- University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Lucinda P Lawson --- University of Cincinnati, USA Michele Menegon --- Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Marina Garrido-Priego --- Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC), Spain Jean Mariaux --- Natural History Museum of Geneva, Switzerland Wilirk Ngalason --- University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Alan Channing --- North-West University, South Africa Nisha R Owen --- On the EDGE Conservation, UK Gabriela B Bittencourt-Silva --- Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC), Spain Mark Wilkinson --- Natural History Museum, UK Joanna G Larson --- University of Notre Dame, USA Václav Gvoždík --- Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic Simon P Loader --- Natural History Museum, UKRecords of biodiversity over time are important resources for assessing conservation priorities. However, such baseline data are missing for regions of key biodiversity importance. The Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania are known for their species richness and endemism, but not... -
Stream frogs in Tanzania (Ranidae: Strongylopus): The case of S. Merumontanus and S. Fuelleborni
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa • Authors: JohnC. Poynton --- The Natural History Museum, UKExamination of the holotype of Strongylopus merumontanus (Lönnberg) points to Barbour & Loveridge (1928) being unjustified in referring Stream Frogs from northeastern Tanzania to this species. Their material is here assigned to the widespread S. fuelleborni, a species shown to... -
On dwarf spiny reedfrogs in Tanzanian eastern lowlands (Anura: Afrixalus)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa • Authors: John Poynton --- Natural History Museum,Some of Pickersgill's (2005) taxonomic proposals regarding an “A. stuhlmanni group” are reviewed; it is considered that Afrixalus delicatus, A. stuhlmanni, A. brachycnemis and A. sylvestris are better treated as separate species. New localities are provided. -
Respiration and hemoglobin function in the giant African bullfrog Pyxicephalus adspersus Tschudi (Anura: Pyxicephalidae) during rest, exercise and dormancy
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: W.J. van Aardt --- North-West University, South Africa RoyE. Weber --- University of Aarhus, DenmarkThe survival strategies of frogs exposed to harsh conditions include various forms of dormancy. Giant bullfrogs Pyxicephalus adspersus subjected to slow desiccation without access to moist substrata over winter in cocoons during dormancy. We found that Pyxicephalus can survive long...