RARE, Hamilton’s frog- silver proof coin
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The global amphibian crisis is the largest mass extinction since the age of the dinosaurs, with more than one third of the world’s 6,300 frog species threatened with extinction . Amphibianshave been around for nearly 360 million years, but are severelyaffected by habitat loss, climate change, pollution and pesticides, introduced species, and over-collection for food and pets. Habitat destruction is the major threat; however an immediate cause is a parasitic fungus that is deadly to hundreds of amphibian species called amphibian chytrid. This disease is currently unstoppable and untreatable in the wild. It can kill 80% of individual amphibians within months and cause 50% of species to become extinct. New Zealand's native frog - the Hamilton’s frog - is one of the rarest frogs in the world with a population estimate of about 300 individuals. It is said to descend from one of the most ancient amphibian lineages and still has a tail bone (but no tail) as well as undeveloped vocal and hearing capabilities. It has a number of special features that make them unlike any others in the world; round rather than slit eyes, hatching straight into an almost fully-formed frog instead of tadpoles, no external ear drums, not croaking regularly like most other frogs, and they catch their prey in their mouths rather than with their tongue! A small
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