Frogs find home in elephant dung

Monday, August 17, 2009 - 18:56 in Biology & Nature

They may not be the best-smelling homes, but Asian elephant dung piles provide certain frog species with shelter, one researcher has found. Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz of the University of Tokyo found the dung-dwelling frogs in Sri Lanka's Bundala National Park, while searching for signs that Asian elephants acted as ecosystem engineers in their environments.

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