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Henry Vilas Zoo - Behind the Scenes

In the herpetarium and discovery center of Madison, Wisconsin’s Henry Vilas Zoo there are multiple exhibits housing amphibians, but these are not the only ones at the zoo. Behind the scenes many rare and endangered frogs are kept and bred. In cooperation with Zoo Atlanta and the Atlanta Botanical Gardens, the Henry Vilas Zoo is currently working with over a dozen species of frogs from Panama whose wild populations have been wiped out by the infamous chytrid fungus. Multiple species have now been bred by these zoological institutions, and although this does not ensure the species survival in the wild, it does make certain that their genetic lineage will at least exist in captivity. Below are photographs of some of these frogs along with other amphibians kept behind the scenes at the Henry Vilas Zoo.

The frog room	Terrariums housing frogs from Panama	Notice the PVC connected to the drains of each terrarium	Plants, tadpoles, and juvenile frogs
Anotheca spinosa from Panama	A. spinosa	A. spinosa	A terrarium housing Anotheca spinosa
Hyla fimbrimembra from Panama	Hyla fimbrimembra	Hyla fimbrimembra	Hyla fimbrimembra
Hyla fimbrimembra	Juvenile Hyla fimbrimembra	Hyla palmeri	Hyla palmeri from Panama
Hyla palmeri	Gastrotheca cornuta A marsupial frog from Panama	Hyalinobatrachium talamancae	Hyalinobatrachium valerioi another Panamanian glass frog
Cochranella euknemos from Panama	Cochranella euknemos	Cochranella euknemos	Centrolene ilex
Centrolene ilex	Centrolene ilex	Centrolene ilex	Colostethus pratti
Colostethus pratti	Minyobates minutus from Panama	Minyobates minutus	Minyobates minutus
Minyobates minutus these photos are of adults	Dendrobates tinctorius 'Sipaliwini'	Dendrobates tinctorius 'Sipaliwini'	Agalychnis calcarifer

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