Medio Ambiente

La rana Romeo busca un amor para preservar su especie en Bolivia

Para el día de San Valentín se lanzará una campaña de recaudación de fondos a fin de enviar expediciones a sitios remotos y buscarle pareja.

This handout picture obtained from Global Wildlife Conservation on February 9, 2018 shows a Sehuencas water frog (Telmatobius yuracare) named "Romeo" kept in a tank at the Natural History Museum in  Cochabamba, Bolivia.
With Valentine's Day approaching, please spare a thought for Romeo the lonesome Bolivian frog.Ten years a bachelor, the childless amphibian has had to enlist human help to mount a last-ditch search for a Juliet which, if it fails, could mean the end of his species.
Romeo, you see, is the last known frog of his kind.And he has been fruitlessly calling for a mate from his tank at the Cochabamba Natural History Museum for years.
 / AFP PHOTO / Global Wildlife Conservation / Matias Careaga / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / Global Wildlife Conservation/Matias Careaga" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS
This handout picture obtained from Global Wildlife Conservation on February 9, 2018 shows a Sehuencas water frog (Telmatobius yuracare) named "Romeo" kept in a tank at the Natural History Museum in Cochabamba, Bolivia. With Valentine's Day approaching, please spare a thought for Romeo the lonesome Bolivian frog.Ten years a bachelor, the childless amphibian has had to enlist human help to mount a last-ditch search for a Juliet which, if it fails, could mean the end of his species. Romeo, you see, is the last known frog of his kind.And he has been fruitlessly calling for a mate from his tank at the Cochabamba Natural History Museum for years. / AFP PHOTO / Global Wildlife Conservation / Matias Careaga / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / Global Wildlife Conservation/Matias Careaga" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS MATIAS CAREAGA
En el acuario gigante que se le ha construido en el museo de Cochabamba, en un gran contenedor de mercancías, Romeo empezó a llamar en busca de una pareja poco después de llegar allí, pero las llamadas empezaron a disminuir en los últimos años. AFP (MATIAS CAREAGA)

Cochabamba, Bolivia. Han pasado más de diez años desde que Romeo, una rana acuática de Sehuencas, busca pareja para preservar su especie.

Sus musicales llamados no han sido atendidos porque todo hace pensar que es el último ejemplar de esta especie endémica de Bolivia.

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