Saving 'LA's Frog' In The San Gabriel Mountains, By Raising Them In-House

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September 10, 2023
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If you're enjoying this article, you'll love our daily morning newsletter, How To LA. Every weekday, you'll get fresh, community-driven stories that catch you up with our independent local news. In the remote waterways of the San Gabriel Mountains, some 170 froglets are swimming and hopping in their native habitat. They are southern mountain yellow-legged frogs — and they are so rare and threatened that these teenage frogs were raised from tadpoles by staff at the Los Angeles Zoo, Santa Ana Zoo, and the Aquarium of the Pacific.

Julia Paskin