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Wednesday, March 4 2015
 Sometimes the key to healthy poison dart frog populations is a pig playing in the mud.
From BBC Earth:
Typically, female poison dart (dendrobatid) frogs lay eggs on land. Once the tadpoles hatch, male frogs, their fathers, then carry them to small nursery pools.
But these pools may be short-lived, and the frogs are too tiny to dig their own.
Enter the peccary, a species of wild pig common in Central and South America.
Peccaries like to fling turf, specifically by digging out wallows – their own individual mud spas.
As they do so, they can radically transform the rainforest floor, creating pools of water that are just the right size for prospective frog parents.
Read more here.
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