Incilius periglenes is the scientific name of the golden toad. Or rather we should say “age“, because from 1989 only one has not been seen not model of this amphibian in the cloudy forest of Monteverde (Costa Rica), for what the IUCN considers to be extinct. It was measuring scarcely five centimeters and there was showing a color fluorescent gilding - orange so brilliant that his discoverer, Jay Savage, was confessing that, on having seen it for the first time, he believed that someone had immersed it in enameled painting, since it seemed impossible that it was a natural sheen. The ecologist Martha Crump, who was the last one to see specimens of this species and wrote the book In search of the golden frog, was describing them as “dazzling jewels in the soil of the forest”.
His extinction assumes to the climate change provoked by the global warming, to an epidemic of fungi, or to a combination of both.
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