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    • Autumn 2019
      • Autumn 2019
      • Enrichment, enrichment, enrichment!
      • New tenants in the Zoological Garden
      • New young tenants in the Zoological Garden
      • News from our reptile yard
      • Renovation works continue
    • Spring 2019
      • Spring 2019
      • Lots of nestlings and chicks in the Zoological Garden
      • "Research, nature conservation, and education in zoos" course: workshop, enrichment tools and more
      • Zoo design conference - Wroclaw, Poland, 2019
      • Spring cleaning, crickets, and mealworms
    • Winter 2019
      • Winter 2019
      • Improving the Garden's exhibitions and appearance - the building momentum continues!
      • The amphibian exhibitions are open
      • On chicks, nestlings and nesting boxes
      • Flowering throughout the Zoological Garden
      • Short Zoological Garden news items
      • The Children's Birding Group visited our Museum
    • Autumn 2018
      • Autumn 2018
      • Renovations and innovations and in the Garden
      • News from the grass
      • Short and happy news items from the thicket aviary
      • Sara Blutinger visited the Garden
      • Patients in the Garden's clinic
      • New faces in the Garden's staff
    • Summer 2018
      • Summer 2018
      • Research, nature conservation, and education in zoos – a glimpse at the course projects
      • New research systems
      • Graduation event - Sagol School
      • Zoological Garden Newsflash
      • The Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel children's birding group: annual summary
    • spring 2018
      • spring 2018
      • A new course is created: Research, nature conservation and education in zoos
      • On coatis and nesting
      • A designated feeding apparatus for the northern bald ibises
      • A national seminar on reptiles
      • On eggs, neonates, and chicks: The breeding season is on!
      • Greylag goose chicks
      • And finally, a small and cheerful news item
    • Winter 2018
      • Winter 2018
      • Winter in the Zoological Garden, and some signs of spring
      • New tenants in the Garden: a white stork and a black stork
      • The thicket aviary: some new tenants and blossom
      • Our Egyptian vulture cracks eggs
      • Parasitic wasps threatened to destroy the crickets' breeding
      • Zoological Garden winter 2018 - newsflash
    • Autumn 2017
      • Autumn 2017
      • New female ibexes in the Garden
      • A coypu in the Garden
      • Latest news from the thicket aviary
      • A large and spacious enclosure for water birds
      • A few words in their memory
      • Flash-news, Autumn 2017
      • The birding and nature club is hosted in our Gardens
    • Summer 2017
      • Summer 2017
      • A center for amphibian research and conservation
      • Light pollution and the spadefoot toad
      • The sea-eagles are back in our Garden!
      • The thicket aviary – final work and beginning of populating
      • Volunteers in the Garden
      • Zoological Garden newsflash
    • Spring 2017
      • Spring 2017
      • The gazelle and the plastic bag – a dramatic story with a happy end
      • Physical challenges as enrichment for the caracal
      • A research system in the Zoological Garden – wild rat navigation
      • Possible breeding of our Gila monsters
      • New water plants in the turtle pond
      • Drama on the grass!
      • National training course on the ethics of working with birds
      • Zoological Garden newsflash
    • Winter 2017
      • Winter 2017
      • The spadefoot toads are breeding and released back into nature
      • Our amphibians are breeding
      • A new aviary for thicket birds
      • The barn owl has gone too far!
      • Happy news about our vultures
      • Taking care of the vegetation in the Zoological Garden
      • A new and renovated cage for the caracal
      • A few words in their memory
      • Zoological Garden newsflash
    • Autumn 2016
      • Autumn 2016
      • Happy and exciting news – the Syrian spadefoot toads are breeding
      • A taphonomic study in the Zoological Garden
      • A colorful romantic story with a sad ending
      • An extended and mixed-species cage for water birds
      • Animal enrichment in the Zoological Garden
      • Wonderful nest-building in the monk parakeet research colony
      • The rock hyrax group
      • Zoological Garden newsflash
    • July-August 2016
      • July-August 2016
      • Fruit bats from a research colony in the Zoological Garden forage in the Botanical Garden
      • Plants from the Botanical Garden in the Zoological Garden's turtle pond
      • A new research system in the Zoological Garden: rock hyraxes and the Leishmania parasite
      • Transplanting intestinal bacteria into white-eyed gull chicks
      • Schneider's skinks are breeding
      • Two young hares have arrived at the Garden
      • Two new jungle cat cubs
      • Common duckweed from the turtle pond – a delicacy for the Nene geese
      • Hyena recreation time in the Jacuzzi
      • Newsflash from the Zoological Garden
    • May-June 2016
      • May-June 2016
      • An adopted vulture chick
      • Improving animal welfare in the Zoological Garden
      • Ringing yellow-legged gulls
      • White-eyed gull – the official bird of Eilat in our Garden!
    • March-April 2016
      • March-April 2016
      • Blood donation for badger cubs
      • Four new vultures in the Zoological Garden
      • A new research system to study vocal communication in the monk parakeet
      • Zoological Garden newsflash
    • January-February 2016
      • January-February 2016
      • A new gate between the gardens!
      • Environmental enrichment project
      • Animal footprints in the new trail
      • It's Valentine's Day for the amphibians
      • Rock hyraxes in the Zoological Garden
      • International Darwin Day celebration
      • Zoological Garden newsflash
    • November-December 2015
      • November-December 2015
      • A new exhibit of Buxton's jirds
      • A new turtle pond
      • A romantic story with a prickly end
      • Updates from our wolf pack
    • September-October 2015
      • September-October 2015
      • The she-wolf Shosha – a returning resident to the Zoological Garden
      • Young Sahara sand vipers
      • Artificial claws for a fruit bat
      • New inhabitants in the zoological garden!
      • New species in the bat exhibition
      • On owls and ibises
      • Spotlight on a research project: Multisensory perception in bats
      • Termites in the Zoological Garden
      • Building a connecting gate between the Gardens and renovating eastern path
    • July-August 2015
      • July-August 2015
      • The ‘collect and save’ mission at Beer Milka
      • The Persian fallow deer antlers
      • Newsflash from the zoological garden
    • May-June 2015
      • May-June 2015
      • “Enlistment day” for the eastern spadefoot toad breeding core
      • Release of newts back to nature
      • Romantic dramas on the grass
      • News from the reptile yard
      • Newsflash from the Zoological Garden
    • April 2015
      • April 2015
      • News from the Clinic
      • New cormorants in the Zoological Garden
      • On crows and gazelles
      • The crooked antler of the adult deer
      • News from the lawn
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Home \ Our animals \ Amphibians

Amphibians

Class Amphibia comprises about 6,000 species of vertebrates that spend their first period of life in fresh water but as adults are able to survive on dry land. Nonetheless, even as adults, amphibians require moisture and their skin is constantly wet. Their thin wet skin serves them as a respiratory system, but also makes them very susceptible to infection. Because of their high sensitivity to pollutants, they offer effective live indicators of the level of contamination of their habitats, mainly seasonal water bodies. 

Since the 1980s, a dramatic reduction in their populations has been recorded worldwide, Israel included. This deterioration indicates the hazardous situation faced by seasonal water bodies.

The Zoological Research Garden hosts six of the seven species of amphibians that live in Israel, and is involved in many nature conservation projects of these species, all of which are in danger of extinction. 

Eastern spadefoot Eastern spadefoot
Eastern spadefoot

Eastern spadefoot
Pelobates syriacus
Photo: Oz Rittner

Green toad Green toad
Green toad

Green toad
Pseudepidalea viridis
Photo: Hamutal Friedman

Hula painted frog Hula painted frog
Hula painted frog

Hula painted frog
Latonia nigriventer
Photo: Oz Rittner

Levant water frog Levant water frog
Levant water frog

Levant water frog
Pelophylax bedriagae
Photo: Hamutal Friedman

Middle East tree frog Middle East tree frog
Middle East tree frog

Middle East tree frog
Hyla savignyi
Photo: Liron Goren 

Southern banded newt Southern banded newt
Southern banded newt

Southern banded newt
Ommatotriton vittatus
Photo: Oz Rittner

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Fax: 03-6405253
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