{"id":460465,"date":"2026-09-11T11:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T11:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/460465\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T11:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T11:22:19","slug":"653-rare-frogs-released-into-la-county-mountains-in-conservation-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/460465\/","title":{"rendered":"653 Rare Frogs Released Into LA County Mountains In Conservation Push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Led by the U.S. Geological Survey, the Southern Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog Recovery Program includes the LA Zoo, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, Omaha&#8217;s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and California Department of Fish and Wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>The Aquarium of the Pacific, Santa Ana Zoo, Big Bear Alpine Zoo and Birch Aquarium have also joined the partnership.<\/p>\n<p>The International Union for Conservation of Nature classifies the southern mountain yellow-legged frog as endangered. The species is found in perennial streams in portions of the San Gabriel, San Bernardino and San Jacinto mountains.<\/p>\n<p>The frogs generally grow to about 1.5 to 3.25 inches long. Adults can be brown, yellow, gray, red or greenish-brown, often with dark markings that help camouflage them against moss and lichen. Their bellies and the undersides of their legs can be yellow or light orange.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors can see southern mountain yellow-legged frogs at the LA Zoo&#8217;s Living Amphibian, Invertebrate, and Reptile exhibit during regular operating hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Led by the U.S. Geological Survey, the Southern Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog Recovery Program includes the LA Zoo, San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-460465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}