{"id":108411,"date":"2020-06-09T04:46:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T11:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/alien-carnivorous-frog-invasion-wreaks-havoc-on-natural-habitat"},"modified":"2020-06-09T04:46:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T11:46:41","slug":"alien-carnivorous-frog-invasion-wreaks-havoc-on-natural-habitat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/alien-carnivorous-frog-invasion-wreaks-havoc-on-natural-habitat","title":{"rendered":"Alien Carnivorous Frog Invasion Wreaks Havoc on Natural Habitat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alien-carnivorous-frog-invasion-wreaks-havoc-on-natural-habitat.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe state government should consider managing the invasive population of spotted-thighed frogs at Streaky Bay. This should include education programs to inform people about what to do if they find a frog, as well as the feasibility of exterminating the population in South Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImportantly, if you do see one of these critters in your travels \u2013 leave it be. We don\u2019t want it hitchhiking any further.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reference: \u201d Indiscriminate feeding by an alien population of the spotted-thighed frog (<i>Litoria cyclorhyncha<\/i>) in southern Australia and potential impacts on native biodiversity\u201d by Christine M. Taylor, Gunnar Keppel, Shaun O\u2019Sullivan, Stefan Peters, Gregory D. Kerr and Craig R. Williams, 9 April 2020, <em>Australian Journal of Zoology<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1071\/ZO19042\" target=\"_top\">DOI: 10.1071\/ZO19042<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe state government should consider managing the invasive population of spotted-thighed frogs at Streaky Bay. This should include education programs to inform people about what to do if they find a frog, as well as the feasibility of exterminating the population in South Australia. \u201cImportantly, if you do see one of these critters in your [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1490,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-government","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}