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submitted 1 day ago by Tau@aussie.zone to c/canberra@aussie.zone

More than 800 tiny, technicoloured northern corroboree frogs have been released into the wild in the Brindabella National Park in southern NSW to try to bolster the numbers of one of Australia's most critically endangered amphibians.

Weighing just 2–3 grams and no bigger than a paper clip, the 842 frogs were born and bred at Sydney's Taronga Zoo in a special quarantine facility designed to keep out a deadly fungus that had driven the species to the brink of extinction.

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[-] arbilp3@aussie.zone 2 points 23 hours ago

You'll have to shout 'Hey Frog' next time!

[-] Tau@aussie.zone 2 points 22 hours ago

I am going to have to try that, it will be very amusing if it works.

this post was submitted on 14 May 2026
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