This rare alpine frog is fighting against a lethal fungus – by breeding faster and faster
- Written by Laura Brannelly, Senior Lecturer in One Health and Biostatistics, The University of Melbourne

For a small frog, the alpine tree frog (Litoria verreauxii alpina) packs a lot of surprises.
For one, this tree frog lives in snowy gullies and high mountain crags across the Australian Alps, far from the tropical areas we normally associate with tree frogs.
But these frogs have another surprise. Their numbers have been...
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