{"id":487669,"date":"2023-08-15T16:13:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T19:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=487669"},"modified":"2023-08-15T16:13:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T19:13:12","slug":"a-tree-frog-linked-to-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/a-tree-frog-linked-to-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"A tree frog linked to flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Xenohyla truncata<\/em>, commonly known as the Izecksohn&#8217;s Brazilian Tree Frog, may not seem particularly unusual, but this unique species is the only known frugivorous frog in the world. The species, one of two in its genus, lives in the restingas of Rio de Janeiro, an environment threatened by human occupation. While taking an inventory of the fauna in the municipality of B\u00fazios, a research group composed of technicians and graduate students from various universities recorded the vocalizations of these animals for the first time, and was surprised to observe that they jump into flowers and spend up to 15 minutes drinking the nectar. This is a unique food preference among amphibians, which could benefit plants through pollination and seed dispersal. Whether the frogs act as pollinators depends on whether the pollen reaches other flowers of the same species intact, which needs to be confirmed by further studies. It is possible that the pollen is damaged by substances secreted by the tree frogs&#8217; skin. \u201cWe don&#8217;t know what led these animals to adopt this diet,\u201d says zoologist Lu\u00eds Felipe Toledo of the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), who supervises two of the students involved in the discovery. \u201cWe continue to find animals doing unexpected things,\u201d he points out (<em>Food Webs<\/em>, March 28).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frogs contribute to pollination and seed dispersal","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":487670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[206,224],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-487669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notes","tag-biodiversity","tag-ecology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487674,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487669\/revisions\/487674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487669"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=487669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}