Kihasi Spray Toad (Nectophrynoides asperginis)
Range: 2 ha on side of
Kihansi Falls, Kenya.
Dam built, reduced flow,
no spray.
10,000 toads aggregate at
the base of the falls.
500 to USA > reduces
to 124, get lungworm then metabolic bone disease and hypovitaminosis A. Mist
system introduced at falls but only 2000 in wild.
Captive to 500; Mist
working 20,000 in wild.
Chyrid appears at falls
population extinct. 70 in zoos.
Where did chyrid come
from (biologists Aust/Sth Africa, trout, introduced frogs?
