{"id":562491,"date":"2026-08-08T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/562491\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:00:10","slug":"nocturnal-coffee-frog-discovered-in-costa-rica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/562491\/","title":{"rendered":"Nocturnal \u2018coffee frog\u2019 discovered in Costa Rica"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A “Rana de las nacientes” (Isthmohyla nacientes), a newly discovered frog species nicknamed the \u201ccoffee frog\u201d, in San Jose, Costa Rica. Photo \/ AFP<\/p>\n

A tiny greenish, nocturnal frog that thrives in coffee plantations has been discovered in Costa Rica\u2019s central Pacific region, where it also faces risks from agrochemicals used in farming.<\/p>\n

\n Measuring less than 4cm and known as the \u201cspring frog\u201d, AFP reporters observed the dark green-spotted amphibians in San Lorenzo de
\n Tarrazu.\n <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a new species of tree frog for science, and endemic to Costa Rica,\u201d researcher Wagner Chaves-Acuna told AFP, per the findings of colleagues from the University of Costa Rica and Argentina\u2019s National Council for Scientific and Technical Research.<\/p>\n

Also nicknamed the \u201ccoffee frog\u201d, the species has another distinctive trait: males have a translucent throat that inflates with their short, high-pitched call.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt night, when they are most active, you can hear them singing and perched on coffee shrubs,\u201d Chaves-Acuna said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP 8 Aug, 2026 01:54 AM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[276617,2851,1558,1853,17379,99800,14647,6119,14934,52670,71,276615,78,111,139,276613,69,13572,219085,381,276614,276616,1519,147,1361,87909,44263,13797,540,406],"class_list":["post-562491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-agrochemicals","tag-also","tag-been","tag-central","tag-coffee","tag-costa","tag-discovered","tag-faces","tag-farming","tag-frog","tag-from","tag-greenish","tag-in","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nocturnal","tag-nz","tag-pacific","tag-plantations","tag-region","tag-rica","tag-ricas","tag-risks","tag-science","tag-that","tag-thrives","tag-tiny","tag-used","tag-where","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}