Cannibals on chopping block
04 February 2016 - 02:45
Cannibal frogs are being killed in their thousands to save an endangered cousin from extinction in the southwestern Cape. Removal of the voracious and overly abundant African clawed frogs has stabilised the population of tiny Cape platanna frogs at one of the only four sites where they survive, the Cape of Good Hope section of the Table Mountain National Park.
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