[Mark]

I saw this footage too. It certainly suggested that precipitation was a key factor to trigger emergence. I was surprised to see this fossorial behaviour; my shanjing never showed any inclination to burrow, even into moss. I wonder if the footage was filmed in the wild or if it was “re-created”. The animals looked wild. They lacked the plumpness one would associate with captive specimens.

The only time I’ve seen T.shanjing eggs was at Mark Staniszewski’s and his had gone to the trouble of sticking the vast majority of them on a cork bark wall well above the water line. Either they expect the water level to rise or the eggs develop better exposed to air.

Did anyone notice that T.shanjing made it back to species status on amphibiaweb? Would it be fair to imply the paper in this thread was discounted?