• Question: Do local Animal Testing laws have any problems with you using and taking Tree Frogs from their natural habitat to use for testing?

    Asked by worrow to Aime, Akshat, Diana, Gemma, Judith on 16 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Judith McCann

      Judith McCann answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      I guess this is for Diana then since I’ve never taken a tree frog out of it’s environment, or ever seen a tree frog hehe

    • Photo: Diana Samuel

      Diana Samuel answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      The tree frogs we keep in the lab were purchased from local pet shops (the species’ are commonly kept as pets), and all of our experiments are in accordance with the appropriate government laws. We didn’t bring back any frogs from Borneo; we conducted all of our experiments on them in a lab at the field station where we were staying. As much as I’d love to be able to work on them here in Glasgow, we currently don’t have the appropriate facilities to ensure their survival, since these frogs require an environment with a high temperature and high humidity, as well as plenty of room to ramble about.

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