Telmatobius hintoni

Telmatobius hintoni is a frog.  It lives in Bolivia.

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This frog spends almost all its time in the water.  It lives in streams that stay streams all year and do not dry up.  It lives high in the Andes Mountains. Scientists saw this frog between  2700 and 4400  meters above sea level.

Scientists have seen this frog in one protected park: Parque Nacional Tunari.

Young
The male frogs call to the female frogs from underwater or from rocks.  They do not have to climb out of the water to call to female frogs.

Scientists think that the male frogs guard the eggs but they are not sure. Scientists saw male T. hontoni frogs fight each other, but they are not sure if they fought to protect the eggs or not.

Danger
Scientists from the IUCN say this frog is in some danger of dying out. Human beings changed the places where the frog lived to make farms, towns and other things. People also put bad chemicals in the water and take water to use. Scientists have found the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis on this frog. B. dendrobatidis causes the fungal disease chytridiomycosis, which has killed many frogs in South America.

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Category:Frogs of South America