{"id":3767,"date":"2009-09-24T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/plains-leopard-frog-rana-blairi\/"},"modified":"2021-06-09T14:56:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T14:56:01","slug":"plains-leopard-frog-rana-blairi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/2009\/09\/24\/plains-leopard-frog-rana-blairi\/","title":{"rendered":"Plains leopard frog &#8211; Rana blairi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7126\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Pl-leop-frog_js.jpg\" width=\"315\" height=\"320\" alt=\"Rana blairi\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Pl-leop-frog_js.jpg 315w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Pl-leop-frog_js-295x300.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><span style=\"font-size:78%\">The plains leopard frog (<span style=\"font-style: italic\">Rana blairi<\/span>)<br \/>\nPhoto by Joe Stevens<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>The plains leopard frog historically inhabited wetlands in the vast prairie grasslands of North America, and still does inhabit prairie wetland remnants, but now has also adapted to areas of human disturbance, including areas used for agriculture and ranching.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7127\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Plains-leopard-frog-2001.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"314\" alt=\"Rana blairi\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Plains-leopard-frog-2001.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Plains-leopard-frog-2001-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><span style=\"font-size:78%\">If they don&#8217;t move, they look remarkably like mud<br \/>\nPhoto by Ren\u00e9e Rondeau<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>This species requires open water for breeding but adults can be found some distance away.  Some known or hypothesized threats to this species include habitat loss, water pollution, water extraction, pesticides, predation by introduced game fish, competition with introduced fish and amphibians, and climate change resulting in increased aridity.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7128\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/leopard-frog-habitat.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" alt=\"plains leopard frog habitat\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/leopard-frog-habitat.jpg 240w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/leopard-frog-habitat-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><span style=\"font-size:78%\">An example of plains leopard frog habitat in southeast Colorado<br \/>\nPhoto by Ren\u00e9e Rondeau<\/span>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plains leopard frog (Rana blairi) Photo by Joe Stevens The plains leopard frog historically inhabited wetlands in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zoology","entry","override"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}