Life and Death Play Out on the Skins of Frogs

摘要

For herpetologists, the global decline of amphibians has been agonizing. For Jamie Voyles, the most disturbing episode was witnessing the death of diseased frogs at the Omar Torrijos Herrara National Park in the Republic of Panama in 2004. "The subsequent silence left a long-lasting impression on me," recalls Voyles, a graduate student in disease ecology at James Cook University, Townsville, in Australia.