Tropical snakes left with nothing to eat after a fungus wiped out their prey

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Researchers have observed a crash in tropical snake numbers following the outbreak of a frog disease in a forest in Panama, and say it's likely that snakes suffered the same fate here during the '70s and '80s.

Many Australian frog species, including the tropical Tinker frog, have suffered serious declines from chytridiomycosis.Frogs are an important food sources for a number of Australian snakes, including red-belly black and brown tree snakes.

Some frog species that are continuing to decline share habitats with other species that are resistant to the disease, which carry it and pass back to vulnerable frog species they come in contact with. But there are things we can do to combat the biodiversity crisis the world is currently facing, she said.

 

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