RE: [vernalpool] Frog compatibility

Very interesting and informative Q and A.
Thanks

> To: vernalpool@yahoogroups.com
> From: mattburne@gmail.com
> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 10:12:42 -0500
> Subject: Re: [vernalpool] Frog compatibility
>
> Well, you're probably feeding a lot of green frogs. The bigger
> philosophical question is whether you're helping inferior genes (those that
> are involved in choosing that rut) persist in the local population of wood
> frogs and salamanders. By-and-large, I've always taken the approach of
> letting nature do its thing, and if individuals make bad decisions, then
> they lose. Though I've certainly be guilty of "rescuing" an egg mass or two
> over the years.
>
> Matt Burne
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> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 10:30 PM, uncledj66@ymail.com <dforbes@antioch.edu>wrote:
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> > For a few years my sons & I have found wood frog & salamander eggs in deep
> > water-filled ruts in a nearby dirt road. Often egg masses are splashed
> > completely out of the ruts onto the ground. We have rescued some of these
> > eggs before, hatched them, and released the larvae into an old farm pool
> > near our house. It seems like an ideal spot, an there are even a few local
> > spotted salamanders that breed in the pool every spring. However, it is also
> > inhabited by a healthy population of green frogs. I have only seen a few
> > 'native' salamander larvae in the pool, and I wonder if by introducing more
> > I am only feeding the greens.
> > Anyone have any suggestions?
> > ~Doug
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