LA Zoo unleashes hundreds of rare frogs into the wild — to rescue SoCal streams

The animals are loose.

The LA Zoo announced it has released more than 650 endangered frogs into area wilds — as part of an ongoing species conservation effort in Southern California.

Scores of southern mountain yellow-legged frogs were released into streams in their natural habitat in the San Gabriel mountains on two separate days in August, zoo officials said.

All of the frogs were bred in captivity — more than half of them raised inside the zoo’s new bio-secure amphibian headstarting facility.

In total, the zoo has released 7,000 frogs as part of their Southern Mountain Yellow-legged Frog Recovery Program.

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