Of frogs & ponds & peccaries

From: Natural History | Date: July 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

As we walked through a tract of Amazonian rainforest surveying frogs, we were startled by grunting noises louder than the granddaddy of all frogs could ever have produced. Braving the spiny palms and stinging ants of the undergrowth, we left the trail just in time to see a collared peccary running off. The wild pig had been rolling in a wallow, a muddy pond about six or seven feet in diameter. Since rainforests are dotted with mud wallows, which are also used by armadillos, we wondered whether these mammals might play a role in creating habitat for some of the forest's frogs.

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