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.