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Eanna Whelan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
126 total appearances

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Mooney Goes Wild
A Chorus Of French Frogs

The bulls there as well, the Camargue bulls.

Mooney Goes Wild
A Chorus Of French Frogs

The horses, as you said, those lovely white horses they have there.

Mooney Goes Wild
A Chorus Of French Frogs

It's full of reptiles and amphibians.

Mooney Goes Wild
A Chorus Of French Frogs

You see quite a few things like snakes and lizards and birds are the main attraction.

Mooney Goes Wild
A Chorus Of French Frogs

But these frogs, really incredible to see them there.

Mooney Goes Wild
A Chorus Of French Frogs

And I just got a kick out of the fact that the name is edible frog.

Mooney Goes Wild
A Chorus Of French Frogs

That is actually the speech.

Mooney Goes Wild
A Chorus Of French Frogs

So it's really interesting, actually, and I won't go into too much detail about it because it's incredibly complicated.

Mooney Goes Wild
A Chorus Of French Frogs

But in terms of their genome... That's what you're here for, to find things.

Mooney Goes Wild
A Chorus Of French Frogs

I'll do my very best because it is complex.

Mooney Goes Wild
A Chorus Of French Frogs

So it is a full species, but it is a hybrid of hybrid origin between two other species.

Mooney Goes Wild
A Chorus Of French Frogs

One is called the pool frog and one is called the marsh frog.

Mooney Goes Wild
A Chorus Of French Frogs

Yes, this is something that happened naturally.

Mooney Goes Wild
A Chorus Of French Frogs

And they still coexist with their parent species.

Mooney Goes Wild
A Chorus Of French Frogs

And they actually reject a large part of the genome of one of those parent species.

Mooney Goes Wild
A Chorus Of French Frogs

And it's incredibly complex.

Mooney Goes Wild
A Chorus Of French Frogs

It's only known in this group of frogs, really, that this behaviour happens.

Mooney Goes Wild
A Chorus Of French Frogs

But the thing with them is, though, it means that they're very adaptable to being able to respond to things like drought and climate change.

Mooney Goes Wild
A Chorus Of French Frogs

I thought that.

Mooney Goes Wild
A Chorus Of French Frogs

That's right.