A team from Oklahoma State University has been learning about the state’s crawfish frogs with survey sites spanning from a single breeding pond to the eastern one-third of Oklahoma. Much like the nursery rhyme, the project started with early spring rains and a snoring subject. But the team quickly began unraveling crawfish frog mysteries at local and range wide levels.
In the study’s two field seasons, 83 individual frogs have been captured and tagged at Atoka Wildlife Management Area and 299 breeding populations have been documented in 32 counties. At a time when crawfish frogs are experiencing declines across much of their range, the species appears to be thriving in Oklahoma.
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