Red-Eyed Stream Frog

At Latitude 10, you may not see the hidden wildlife very easily, but if you look closer, you might be amazed of what you can find. This is what happened just today, when our cook Ivette noticed something stuck to a leaf on one of the plants of the clubhouse. All guests and staff were amazed as they saw a little green frog opening its big red eyes and were even more amazed to know that it´s a frog in danger of extinction: the red-eyed stream frog.

Duellmanohyla uranochroa is found from the Caribbean slopes of the Provincia de Bocas del Toro, Panama, into Costa Rica, on the Atlantic and Pacific slopes of the Cordilleras de Tilaran, Central and Talamanca.
D. uranochroa is active during the night, where individuals are found congregating along montage streams, and during the day they are often found in bromeliads.

Declines and local extinctions have been reported for populations within the Monteverde region of Costa Rica's Cordillera de Tilaran, synchronous with the decline of 24 (from a total of 53) other amphibian species during 1990. Documentation through 1994 showed limited recovery and recolonization of only 2 of the previous 6 occupied sites.

Possible reasons for amphibian decline
General habitat alteration and loss
Subtle changes to necessary specialized habitat
Disease Climate change, increased UVB or increased sensitivity to it, etc.

For a video of this rare frog:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7603201.stm

We'll post more photos of this cute little frog on our Facebook page this week!