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WILDLIFE
Climate change could make this horrific New Jersey wildlife disease worse
The Garden State is home to ranavirus, a pathogen capable of killing amphibians en masse. Scientists still aren’t sure what’s causing outbreaks and what the long-term effects might be, and rising temperatures could exacerbate the problem.
ALEX MEGERLE / INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS – It was May 2011 when herpetologist Robert Zappalorti called scientists about the tadpoles.
Researchers at Montclair State University went to see for themselves. At the site in Ocean County, New Jersey, they found green frog tadpoles that looked like something out of a medical drama or a frog horror film—lethargic and swollen, with red lesions on their skin.
In the same area, they found Fowler’s toad tadpoles eating the corpses of dead green frog tadpoles …
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