Frog-hunters of the Western Ghats  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 401 no. 8764 (Dec. 2011), page 33-36.
Topik: Colleges & Universities; Research; Scientists; Frogs; Environmental Protection; International
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Not surprisingly, Kerala's rainforests are thinly populated. Only the very determined, with a clear purpose and considerable resilience, venture into them. Among those are Sathyabhama Biju Das, an amphibian researcher at Delhi University, his students and his growing band of followers. Mr Biju is the closest thing Indian herpetology has to a celebrity. In 2003 he discovered nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis, a purple jelly-like creature with a pointed nose and a running gait that makes a sound like a small chicken. It is actually a frog, but so different from other frogs that it has its own taxonomic family. Mr Biju wants to preserve as many as possible from a poignant fate. So far he has clocked up one family, seven genera and 57 species--more species than any scientist in India. Mr Biju seems to derive moral strength from the sense of being on the side of the underfrog.

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