Meeting: Friday 4th October 2024
Frog-O-Graphic 2024 People's Choice
Speaker:
Roy Farman (University of NSW)
"It's all in the hips - uncovering Australia's froggy past.
Australian Fossil Frogs."
Meeting: Friday 2nd August 2024
Speakers:
Lachlan Hart "What the FROG is a temnospondyl?"
Arthur White "Cane Toad Control - planning for 2024"
Meeting: Friday 7th June 2024
Speakers:
Brittany Mitchell (PhD Student at UNSW)
"Frogs in the Anthropocene:
Frog responses to Climate Change and Disease"
Arthur White
"Some notable Amphibians from the Past and the Present"
Meeting: Friday 5th April 2024
Speakers:
Jenny O'Meara (Sydney Olympic Park Authority):
"Conserving Green and Golden Bell Frogs:
challenging, delightful but sometimes confounding"
Michelle Toms and Fabian Byers: "February Smiths Lake Excursion"
Arthur White: "The Case of the Midwife Toad"
Greenacre Open Day Saturday 30th March 9:30 am to 12 pm
Hosted by the Cooks River Alliance of local councils and FATS
1z Bellfrog St, Greenacre (GPS -33.9064, 151.0748)
What Three Words ///exists.scan.debate
Supper
Meeting: Friday 2nd February 2024
Speakers:
Luc Streit: "Frogs and Toads jump a surprise"
Arthur White: "Greenacre Open Day"
Arthur White: "Smiths Lake Field Trip report November 2023"
Supper
Meeting: Friday 8th December 2023
(Not first Friday)
Speakers:
Michael McFadden (Taronga Zoo)
Update on the Corroboree Frog program
Christmas Party
Meeting: Friday 6th October 2023
Speakers:
Marion Anstis "Animal adventures in Borneo"
Arthur White "Dry season frogging at Berry Springs"
"Auditory surveys at SOPA"
"Changing the FATS Executive"
FROG-O-Graphic 2023 People's Choice
Supper
Meeting: Friday 4th August 2023
Annual General Meeting:
Election of Committee:
Speakers:
Arthur White
"History of FATS"
Arthur White
"The Conservation of Native Frogs in Fiji"
Supper
Meeting: Friday 2nd June 2023
Speakers:
Levi Brown (Macquarie Uni)
"Detection of fire-related cues by frogs"
Arthur White
"Frogs of Berry Springs, Northern Territory"
Supper
Meeting: Friday 31st March 2023
Speaker:
The battle to control Frog Chytrid Disease and its Pathogens
Supper
Meeting: Friday 3rd February 2023
Shannon Kaiser: (PhD Candidate at Macquarie University)
Interaction between Frogs and Environmental chemicals
Arthur White:
Why Cold-blooded (ectothermic) animals will outlive us all
Smith's Lake Field Trip Nov 2023
Please note: The April meeting will be held on Friday 31st March
Supper
Meeting: Friday 2nd December 2022
Speakers: Arthur White
Smiths Lake Recollections
Frog-O-Graphic 2022 Prize Award
Supper
Meeting: Friday 7th October 2022
Speakers:
Chad Beranek (University of Newcastle)
Winners and Losers of forest amphibians after the
2019-2020 black summer fires
Frog-O-Graphic 2022 People's Choice
Meeting: Friday 5th August 2022
Annual General Meeting
Speakers:
Grant Webster "Anstisia and the ground frogs of Western Australia"
Jilli Streit "Cuban Tree Frogs in America"
Kathy Potter "Flash Colours in Frogs"
Meeting: Friday 3rd June 2022
Speakers: George Madani
How do we sleep while our beds are burning?
Impacts of the 2019-20 mega-fires on the Golden-tipped Bat.
Tim Cutajar (Australian Museum)
Can bugs do it better?
Early success and future research
using DNA from parasites
to find frogs.
Meeting: Friday 1st April 2022
Speakers: Sarah Stock from the University of Newcastle
"Genetic isolation in
Litoria littlejohni
and Litoria watsoni"
Peter Spradbrow: Frogs of the Lismore area
Michelle Toms talks about Smiths Lake Trip March 2022
Meeting: Friday 4th February 2022 (Masks must be worn in the meeting room)
The meeting will have reduced numbers (maximum 25), people need to register in advance by emailing Arthur (see Contacts page).
People will also need to register when they arrive (by QR code or by signature).
SOPA only wants people who have been fully vaccinated attending so people will have to show proof of vaccination at the door.
If you are not double vaccinated or cannot prove that you are double vaccinated, you will not be admitted to the meeting.
We will have hand washes and sterile wipes available at the meeting.
Seating will be arranged to provide maximum spacing, and numbers allowed into confined areas (such as the kitchen) will be regulated.
Talk
Arthur White: " The Origin of Frogs".
What did frogs evolve from and how were frogs (amphibians) regarded by humans throughout history.
Meeting: Friday 3rd December 2021 (UPDATE: Masks must be worn in meeting room)
People do not need to register in advance.
Numbers are not limited but people will still have to register when they arrive (by QR code or by signature).
SOPA only wants people who have been fully vaccinated attending so people will have to show proof of vaccination at the door.
If you are not double vaccinated or cannot prove that you are double vaccinated, you will not be admitted to the meeting.
We will have hand washes and sterile wipes available at the meeting.
Seating will be arranged to provide maximum spacing and numbers allowed into confined areas (such as the kitchen) will be regulated.
Meeting Format
The meeting will have a few short talks (mostly by Arthur White) and then a Trivia Quiz and then some food.
Talk 1: The Olm or Cave Dragon
Talk 2: Strathfield Green and Golden Bell frog project update
Talk 3: Smiths Lake field trip report (by Josie Styles)
Presentation of Frog-O-Graphic 2021 Prizes
Trivia contest
ZOOM AGM Only on Friday 6th August 2021 at 7:00 pm.
FATS ZOOM Meeting Details 24 Hours before meeting
Friday 4th June 2021 6:30pm for 7pm
Speakers:
Roy Farmer: UNSW "Frog Fossils: The Australian Perspective"
Arthur White "How to find an extinct frog"
"Saving Heleioporus in Victoria"
Friday 9th April 2021 6:30pm for 7pm
Note 2nd Friday of April due to Public Holiday
Due to COVID19 requirements, the Education Centre can
hold no more than 25 people. Please contact Arthur White
by email (see Contacts page) to confirm your
attendance and the total number of people with you. He will
advise if there is room, or whether the meeting is booked out.
Speakers:
Samantha Wallace "Joys of working with Litoria littlejohni and Litoria watsoni"
Arthur White "Wyong Pioneer Dairy Farm Survey"
Supper
Friday 5th February 2021 6:30pm for 7pm
Due to COVID19 requirements, the Education Centre can
hold no more than 25 people. Please contact Arthur White
by email (see Contacts page) to confirm your
attendance and the total number of people with you. He will
advise if there is room, or whether the meeting is booked out.
Speaker: Arthur White “Measures to recover Green and Golden Bell Frogs in Sydney.”
Marion Anstis "Parental 'Care' outside the square"
Friday 4th December 6:30pm for 7pm
Due to COVID19 requirements, the Education Centre can
hold no more than 25 people. Please contact Arthur White
by email (see Contacts page) to confirm your
attendance and the total number of people with you. He will
advise if there is room, or whether the meeting is booked out.
Speaker: Grant Webster, giving us a special show of Aaron Payne's photos"
Frog-O-Graphic 2020: Competition prizes awarded
Trivia Quiz, raffle, Christmas supper
Friday 2nd October 6:30pm for 7pm
Due to COVID19 requirements, the Education Centre can
hold no more than 25 people. Please contact Arthur White
by email (see Contacts page) to confirm your
attendance and the total number of people with you. He will
advise if there is room, or whether the meeting is booked out.
Speaker: Arthur White "Riversleigh, fossil frogs and frogs"
Frog-O-Graphic 2020: Peoples Choice
FATS AGM AND ORDINARY MEETING
7PM FRIDAY 7 AUGUST 2020
The Education Centre can hold a maximum of 25 people,
spaced out ( COVID19 requirements ). To ensure no more
than 25 people attend, please contact our
President Arthur White by email to confirm your attendance.
Speaker: Arthur White
“Drought, Bushfires and COVID: a lethal cocktail for our native wildlife”
Next Meeting: Friday 4th December 6:30pm for 7pm
Due to COVID19 requirements, the Education Centre can
hold no more than 25 people. Please contact Arthur White
by email (see Contacts page) to confirm your
attendance and the total number of people with you. He will
advise if there is room, or whether the meeting is booked out.
Speaker: Grant Webster, giving us a special show of Aaron Payne's photos"
Frog-O-Graphic 2020: Competition prizes awarded
Trivia Quiz, raffle, Christmas supper
Friday 2nd October 6:30pm for 7pm
Due to COVID19 requirements, the Education Centre can
hold no more than 25 people. Please contact Arthur White
by email (see Contacts page) to confirm your
attendance and the total number of people with you. He will
advise if there is room, or whether the meeting is booked out.
Speaker: Arthur White "Riversleigh, fossil frogs and frogs"
Frog-O-Graphic 2020: Peoples Choice
FATS AGM AND ORDINARY MEETING
7 PM FRIDAY 7 AUGUST 2020
The FATS AGM will be held at the Education Centre at Bicentennial Park
on the 7th of August 2020.
Space is limited and only those people who have registered in advance
by email to Arthur White will be permitted inside.
Below is the agenda of the AGM. Nominations for council positions have closed
but if you have any items for General Business please send them
to Arthur White before the 6th of August.
Speaker: Arthur White
“Drought, Bushfires and COVID: a lethal cocktail for our native wildlife”
Frog-O-Graphic 2020 Opens 1st May
Meeting Friday 7th February 2020 6:30pm for 7pm
Speakers:
Jordan Crawford-Ash from Australian Museum
"Are they just bad neighbours? :
Understanding the infection dynamics of the amphibian
chytrid fungus for three Sydney frog species"
Kathy Potter
"Call Races in Limnodynastes tasmaniensis
What do they mean?”
Meeting Friday 6th December 2019 6:30pm for 7pm
Speaker:
Marion Anstis talking about her
recent trip to Costa Rica 
The Frog-O-Graphic prizes will be
awarded
Christmas Party
Meeting Friday 6th October 2019 6:30pm for 7pm
Speaker:
Chad Beranek from Newcastle Uni.
"Frogs and Fish: Unravelling the Aquatic Competition".
The Frog-O-Graphic, People’s Choice winner
will be voted on by everyone at the meeting
Meeting Friday 2nd August 2019 6:30pm for 7pm
Speakers:
Henry Cook "Novel ways to help threatened species"
Grant Webster "New Zealand Frogs and a possible population of
Litoria castanea"
Arthur White "Impacts of feral horses on Corroboree Frog habitat
in Koscuisko National Park"
Meeting Friday 7th June 2019 6:30pm for 7pm
Speaker: Glenn Shea
"The early European history of discovery and study of Sydney's frogs
Part 2 - the rise of local naturalists"
Meeting Friday 5th April 2019 6:30pm for 7pm
Speakers: Glenn Shea "The early history of Sydney's frogs"
Punia Jeffery "Axolotls"
FATS will be at the Easter Show
Mon 22nd and Tue 23rd April
Meeting Friday 1st February 2019 6:30pm for 7pm
Speaker:
Arthur White: "Why are true frogs true"
Simon Clulow will discuss his new book
“Frogs of Australia”, signed copies for sale ($45) at the meeting
Punia Jeffery: "Axolotl relatives"
Arthur White: "Frogs in Amber"
Meeting Friday 7th December 2018 6:30pm for 7pm
Speaker: John Cann talking about turtles
Presentation of Frog-O-Graphic 2018 Awards
Christmas Party
Meeting Friday 5th October 2018 6:30pm for 7pm
Speaker: Marion Anstis Living grasslands of Serengeti
Punia Jeffery Axolotls and reproduction
Meeting Friday 1st June 2018 6:30pm for 7pm
Speaker:
Arthur White "Are frogs primitive?"
The talk is about the origins of frogs and some of the characteristics that
they have retained which, to human eyes,
appear very basic or primitive.
Punia Jeffery Keeping Axolotls
Natalia Sabatino Yabbies and their diet
Meeting Friday 6th April 2018 6:30pm for 7pm
Speaker:
Grant Webster "Kim Dong's Hot Pot - the frogs of Korea"
Meeting Friday 7th February 2018 6:30pm for 7pm
Speakers
Arthur White - "Frogging in Australia, those who have discovered species"
Kathy Potter - "FrogID App from Australian Museum"
Meeting Friday 1st December 2017 6:30pm for 7pm
Speaker
Marion Anstis - Photographic journey in South Africa
Frog-O-Graphic 2017 Winners awarded
Christmas Party
Meeting Friday 6th October 2017 6:30pm for 7pm Speaker
"Managing a National Icon-
Green and Golden Bell frogs at Sydney Olympic Park"
Jenny O'Meara SOPA
Frog-O-Graphic 2017 Winners announced
Audience participates in Peoples Choice
Meeting Friday 4th August 2017 6:30pm for 7pm
Emma McInerney and Shannon Helleher -
University of Wollongong
What makes a good Corroboree Frog?
Conservation solutions for a critically endangered amphibian.
Arthur White
Talk about suburban frogs calling and neighbourhood disputes.
Annual General Meeting
Meeting Friday 2nd June 2017 6:30pm for 7pm
Michael McFadden
Update on the Corroboree Frog recovery program
Grant Webster:
Proposed changes to the scientific names of frogs in Australia
Meeting Friday 7th April 2017 6:30pm for 7pm
Arthur White
The response of the scientific community in Australia to the decline in native frogs
Fabian Byers
Smith's Lake March 2017
Jilli Streit
Adventures in Florida and Costa Rica trip
Meeting Friday 3rd February 2017 6:30pm for 7pm
Arthur White - "Swimming in Sand" 30 years at Wallingat
Arthur White - "Taren Point outcome"
NEW: Log that Frog is for recording sightings of Australian Frogs
FATS
25
years
Meeting Friday 2nd December 2016 6:30pm for 7pm start
Speakers:
Marion Anstis -
‘Arctic glimpses: Svalbard
in Summer’
Frog-O-Graphic 2016 awards presented
Photo: Limnodynastes dumerilii dumerilii by Aaron Payne
Arthur White Short Presentations
Friday 7th October 2016 6:30pm for 7pm start
Speakers:
Cameron Webb
"Mosquitoes, Climate Change and
shift in distribution"
Frog-O-Graphic 2016 has closed
People's Choice to be decided at October Meeting
FATS Financial Members
Photo: Limnodynastes dumerilii dumerilii by Aaron Payne
Friday 5th August 2016 6:30pm for 7pm start
Annual General Meeting
Speakers:
Arthur White - History of Green
and Golden Bell Frogs in Sydney
Peter Spradbrow - Elephants are not Frogs
Friday 3rd June 2016 6:30pm for 7pm start
"Frogs of South-East Asia" Dr Jodi Rowley
"Mitigating the impacts of road upgrades
on threatened frogs in NSW" Josie Stokes
Friday 1st April 2016 6:30pm for 7pm start
Henry Cook
"Frog anecdotes from around the world"
Marion Anstis
"New species of Australian Frogs 2008-15"
Peter Spradbow
"Smiths Lake Field Trip"
Friday 5th February 2016 6:30pm for 7pm start
Speakers:
"Frogging in Kakadu National Park -
frogs of the wet and dry seasons" - Arthur White
"Smith's Lake - November 2015" - Peter Spadbrow
"Sex reversal in Frogs" - Arthur White
Friday 4th December 2015 6:30pm for 7pm start
Speaker: Graham Pyke "Broughton Island"
FATS Frog-O-Graphic 2015 competition
Winners awarded
Friday 2nd October 2015 6:30pm for 7pm start
Speaker: David Nelson “Frogging Costa Rica”
FATS Frog-O-Graphic 2015 competition
Winners announced and People's Choice decided
Friday 7th August 2015 6:30pm for 7pm start
Speaker: Marta Vidal-Garcia
"Jump to it!
Locomotion in Australian Frogs"
Annual General Meeting
Friday 5th June 2015 6:30pm for 7pm start
Speaker
Grant Webster
"Pseudophryne bibronii"
the many forms of the Little Brown Brood Frog
Arthur White
"Frog sound and hearing"
Guess what - frogs hear what we don't hear, and make sounds
that are not meant for us. Get it from the frog's point of view.
Friday 10th April 2015 6:30pm for 7pm start
Speaker
Josie Stokes
"Boom, bust..boom!-
A short history of the GGBF
on the Shoalhaven floodplain"
Jilli Streit Smiths Lake March 2015
FATS at Easter Show
Five favourite photos
Supper
Speaker:
Arthur White
"Life as a Wallum Sedge Frog"
Litoria olongburensis
Photo by Marion Anstis
Jilli Streit
"Smiths Lake Nov 2014
Field Trip Report"
Monica Wangmann
"Northern Corroboree Frog visit
at Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve"
Pseudophryne pengilleyi
Photo by Marion Anst
Gerry Swan - "Life in the Trenches"
A fascinating account of the rescue of native wildlife
during the laying of gas pipelines,
especially in Queensland.
Frog-o-Graphic 2014 awards presented
Video of Whitley award presentation to Marion Anstis
Berlin Aquarium visit by Punia Jeffery
Supper
Chris Jolly
"Defending Native Animals from Cane Toads"
Annual General Meeting to elect FATS Committee
Grant Webster:
"Australia's false toads -
Pseudophryne,
the bold and beautiful brood frogs"
Arthur White will be giving a
presentation on the oldest
Australian fossil frog
Dr Robert Johnson
"The metamorphosis of the amphibian vet".
Marion Anstis
"Some adventures in Galapagos
and the Amazon"
Cameron Webb (Westmead Hospital)
"Taking the bites out of frogging".
Talk will be about mosquitoes
(mosquito photo by Andrew Nelson)
Friday 7th February 2014
Jake Janos “Central Bearded Dragons and their Mutations" and “Frog husbandry”
Arthur White "Ghost Bats and Cane Toads in Kakadu"
Marion Anstis 2014 Australian Society of Herpetologists (ASH) Meeting
Lothar Voigt Pool to Ponds conversions
Friday 6th December 2013
Report of book launch of "Tadpoles and Frogs of Australia" by Marion Anstsis. Book will be available for purchase (standard edition).
Smith's Lake trip report
Frog-o-Graphic Awards (see below)
Ian Morris "Frogs of the Top End"
Christmas Party
Frog-o-Graphic 2013 Category Winners
Junior Art (Left) 
Ryan Little
Senior Art (Right)
Vicki Deluca
Senior Pet Frog (Left) 
Karen Russell
Senior Photo (Right)
David Nelson
Most Interesting (Left) 
George Madani
People's Choice (Right)
George Madani
Friday 4th October 2013
Ken Griffith
"A Naturalist's Rambles through Central Australia and the USA"
Frog-o-Graphic 2013 People's Choice Selection
Frog-o-Graphic 2013 Winners announced
Volunteers needed for
SOPA Auditory Frog Survey
at Olympic Park
Friday 2nd August 2013
Annual General Meeting with Election of FATS Committee
Main Speakers: Karen Russell and Marie Callins
Keeping Frogs Happy and Healthy
Marion Anstis - Madagascar
Arthur White - Whats live in a Dark Deep Cave
Friday 7th June 2013
7:00 pm Welcome and announcements.
Main speaker: Marcelle Douglas, Macquarie University on a Chytrid case study
Arthur White: Lazarus Project.
9:00 pm Supper
Friday 5th April 2013
Grant Webster
Is a male frog being yellow an advantage ?
Australian Society of Herpetologists (ASH) conference at Point Wolstoncroft at Lake Macquarie in January awarded Grant the prize for best student presentation amongst all honours and masters students, for his work on colour change in frogs. Well done Grant!
(Photo from http://whitinglab.com/?p=3962)
Announcement of Frog-o-Graphic 2013 Competition
Friday 1st February 2013
Eric Vanderduys
Author of "Field Gude to Frogs of Queensland" 2012
A limited number of discounted copies
will be available for sale at the FATS meeting.
Discount price is $30 (instead of $45 rrp).
Eric Vanderduys may sign books bought on the night.
Emily Stratins Frog habitat selection in a peri-urban environment; do frogs avoid weeds?
Author: Eric Vanderluys "Frogs of Queensland" Emily Stratins talk
Emily Stratins Jilli Streit on Smith's Lake Trip Nov 2012
25th to 28th April, Smith's Lake Field Trip
Friday 7th December 2012
Frog-o-Graphic winners and selection of People Choice. Arthur White on Caecilians and FATS 21st Birthday Party
Friday 5th October 2012
Venue: Education Centre, Bicentenial Park
7:00 pm Welcome and announcements. Introduction by Punia Jeffery
Robert Wall announced the following field trips:
Darkes Forest for Saturday 6th October leader Ken Griffiths.
Smith’s Lake Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th November, leader Arthur White, contact Karen White.
Watagans’ trip in December leaders Brad and Matt McCaffery
Frog-o-graphic competition winners to be announced in December.
Donated packages of crickets and flies from Gerry Marantelli of the Amphibian Research Centre, Vic were shared with members. Contact ARC (www.frogs.org.au) if you wish to purchase these items as the income will help ARC fund research on Australian frogs.
7:45 pm Speakers
Matt Greenlees from University of Sydney talked about Radio Tracking of Cane Toads. 
Matt started investigating Cane Toads and their interactions with other mammals, fishes and reptiles at Fogg Dam NT, as an Honours project with Prof. Rick Shine in 2004. Matt continued at University of Sydney with a PhD in the area of Cane Toads interactions with frog species. Matt presented a detailed description of the Cane Toad’s history and its breeding characteristics; the pervasive nature of the toad’s toxin through from the female’s ovaries to the egg and tadpole stages and to metamorphs and adult toads. The rate of advance of the invasion front from east to west across the top of Australia (55km/year) compared with NSW (10-15km/year) was attributed to longer legs developed by the northern population. Matt also spoke of the work on the cane toad infestation in the Sutherland Shire and Taren Point in the last few years and that over 500 toads had been collected from March 2010 to Feb 2012. The Sutherland population is probably under control with only two found so far this season.
Problems caused by cane toads fall into two main areas: they eat and compete with native species and they poison native predators including frogs, reptiles, birds and mammals. Matt discussed mortality rates for the predators and observations of species which were less susceptible to the toxin such as populations of Bluetongue lizards previously exposed to the succulent exotic plant mother-of-millions. He explained strategies developed by other animals, avoidance training experiments and the use of the attractive nature of toad toxin as a bait for large-scale trapping of toad tadpoles.
Matt’s current project includes tracking Cane Toads in the Clarence Valley NSW.
Harald Ehmann, the founding chairperson of FATS on a visit from Adelaide, talked about “To dry is to die – frog life in central Australia”. Harald (left in photo) works with Aboriginal people of the Pitjanjatjara and Yangkunitjara nations (Anangu) in the Alinytjara Wilurara (AW) Region of northern and western South Australia. Harald described strategies used by desert frogs to retain their moisture, including burrowing up to a 1.6 m down into the desert sand. In the Desert Trilling Frog the webbing along the side of the body to the knee is an adaption for burrowing in loose dry sand. Species in this area are Platyplectron spenceri, Cyclorana maini, Neobatrachus centralis/sudelli and N. sutor, Litoria rubella, and in some of the central ranges, the Springs Frogs, one of which has very recently been described as Pseudophryne robinsoni. There are very likely two and possibly three species of Springs Frogs in only a few of the 30+ springs in the Anangu Pitjanjatjara Yangkunitjara Lands.
Feral animals such as donkeys, horses and camels pollute the watercourse springs and associated waterpools that Springs Frogs totally depend on. They are also impacted by too little water due to extraction from the spring-feeding aquifers, or too much water which is a natural occurrence when heavy rains produce huge torrents in the creek beds with springs. Competition in the tadpole stages with other co-existing species may be a factor in limiting the Springs Frogs. Predation by large Cyclorana maini tadpoles on smaller Springs Frogs tadpoles and on the vulnerable metamorphs is also a risk besides predation by young Cyclorana maini frogs.
Ongoing work includes searches for additional occurrences of Springs Frogs at sites still to be checked, monitoring of known populations and their threats, and management of the threatening factors. Anangu are involved at each stage of the work, and their involvement includes training so that they can take over and continue the work in the future.
Friday 3rd August 2012
Venue: Education Centre, Bicentenial Park
6:30pm for Lost frogs needing forever homes: Perons, Rubellas & Striped Marsh Frogs. Please bring your FATS membership card and cash $ 30 - $ 50 donation. NSW NPWS amphibian licence must be sighted on the night. Rescued frogs can never be released.
7:00 pm Welcome and announcements.
Annual General Meeting
Arthur White President's Report
Karen White Treasurer's Report
Election of Office Bearers
7:30 pm Speakers
George Madani Journey into Wild Borneo: Part 2
Arthur White Caecilians: what are they?
9:00 pm Show us your frog images, tell us about your frogging trips or experiences, guessing competition, continue with frog adoptions, supper & a chance to relax and chat with frog experts.
Friday 1st June 2012
6:30pm for Lost frogs needing forever homes: Perons, Rubellas & Striped Marsh Frogs. Please bring your FATS membership card and cash $ 30 - $ 50 donation. NSW NPWS amphibian licence must be sighted on the night. Rescued frogs can never be released. Probably few if any frogs this meeting as Monica is away.
7:00 pm Welcome and announcements.
7:30 pm Speakers
David Nelson Journey into Wild Borneo: Part 1
Grant Webster Is a yellow male frog a chick magnet?
Marion Anstis Four new species of Nursey Frogs - genus Cophixalus
Arthur White Paedophryne - the world's smallest frog
Arthur White Caecilians: what are they?
9:00 pm Show us your frog images, tell us about your frogging trips or experiences, guessing competition, continue with frog adoptions, supper & a chance to relax and chat with frog experts.
Friday 13th April
Venue: Education Centre, Bicentenial Park
6:30pm Rescued Frogs sales
7:00pm Main Meeting
Speakers: Topic
Matthew Bulbert (Macquarie Uni)
“Its a hard life being a male Túngara frog: a lesson in
dealing with choosy females, eavesdropping bats, blood-sucking flies
and the odd nosey researcher”. Frogging adventures in South America.
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Arthur White
Those strange amphibians called caecilians.
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Phillip Grimm
FATS Web Site Redeveloped 
From the Floor: Audience members presenting subjects of their own interest
Raffle:
Supper