Red-legged leap across the border


A red-legged froglet peeking out in a restoration pond that is part of a cross-border effort to bring back the species in both Southern California in the United States and Baja California in Mexico. — AP

BRAD Hollingsworth crouches at the edge of a pond in Southern California, rubber boots sunk into the mud, but he doesn’t step into the water.

Instead, the herpetologist – an expert in reptiles and amphibians – retrieves a small recording device, the size of a deck of cards, and removes a tiny memory card holding 18 hours of sound.

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