{"id":4768,"date":"2014-11-12T06:11:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T06:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/11\/12\/new-qbat-frogq-found-in-amazon-named-for-ozzy-osbourne\/"},"modified":"2014-11-12T06:11:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T06:11:44","slug":"new-qbat-frogq-found-in-amazon-named-for-ozzy-osbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/11\/12\/new-qbat-frogq-found-in-amazon-named-for-ozzy-osbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"New &#8220;Bat Frog&#8221; Found in Amazon, Named for Ozzy Osbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nationalgeographic.com\/wpf\/media-content\/photos\/000\/856\/cache\/85674_990x742-cb1415379720.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"218\" height=\"155\" \/><br \/>&#8220;As soon as I heard its call, I knew it was a new species. I had never heard anything like it,&#8221; said Pedro Peloso, one of the frog&#8217;s discoverers and a postdoctoral fellow at Museu Paraense Em\u00edlio Goeldi, Brazil. Peloso and colleagues found the 0.75-inch (19.4-millimeter)  amphibian in 2009 as part of a biodiversity survey of Floresta Nacional  de Pau-Rosa, a protected area in the state of Amazonas (map).   <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>During the month-long expedition, the team found 21 specimens of the  brown-and-orange creature, which has mysteriously long, delicate fingers  and toes. (Read about tree frogs in <em>National Geographic <\/em>magazine.)<\/p>\n<p>The male frogs also have an unusually large vocal sac, a nearly  transparent piece of skin that inflates to produce its unique  high-pitched chirping sound. Male tree frogs in general make loud calls  to communicate with females in distant treetops, but the new species is  the first known to sound like a bat.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Once the team had brought their treasure back to the lab,  &#8220;we kept talking about the &#8216;bat frog,&#8217; which led to us talking about  being fans of Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath,&#8221; Peloso said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">At a concert in 1981, Osbourne bit the head off a bat that a  fan threw on the stage, although Osbourne later said he believed it was  rubber. Peloso named his bat frog <em>Dendropsophus ozzyi<\/em>, and it&#8217;s described November 6 in the journal <em>Zootaxa<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Source: National Geographic<br \/>Image source: National Geographic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As soon as I heard its call, I knew it was a new species. I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}