Romeo & Juliet -
Love at First Swim

Finally, The First Date!

Romeo and Juliet the Sehuencas Water Frogs have had their first date and have already moved in together in Romeo’s aquarium. The two are getting along swimmingly and Romeo has even started calling again after giving up at the end of 2017. If all goes as planned, the pair will help establish a conservation breeding program at the Museo de Historia Natural Alcide d’Orbigny to save their species from extinction.

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A Frog In Search of Love

In 2008, a team of biologists in Bolivia brought in from the field a single male Sehuencas Water Frog (Telmatobius yuracare), Romeo. They had hoped to create a conservation breeding program for the traditionally common species ahead of population crashes they were seeing with other frogs. Ten years later and GWC partner Alcide d’Orbigny Natural History Museum and other researchers had not been able to locate a single other individual Sehuencas Water Frog—male or female—until now. On an expedition to a Bolivian cloud forest at the end of 2018, GWC and the museum rediscovered the Sehuencas Water Frog in the wild, including Juliet. Romeo even had his own dating profile on Match in his pursuit of a mate.

Top photo: Robin Moore, GWC

Romeo In The News

Juliet Discovered!

January 17, 2019: Romeo the Frog Finds His Juliet. Their Courtship May Save a Species. (The New York Times) Link

January 16, 2019: World’s loneliest frog, named Romeo, finds his Juliet, offering hope for species (NPR) Link

January 16, 2019: A Year Later, Match.com Profile Pays Off for World’s Loneliest Frog (Smithsonian) Link

January 16, 2019: Romeo and Juliet: the last hopes to save Bolivian aquatic frog (AFP) Link

January 16, 2019: He’s spent 10 years alone. Now Romeo, the world’s loneliest frog, may have finally found a Juliet that can save his species (CNN) Link

January 15, 2019: The ‘World’s Loneliest Frog’ Finally Has a Mate (Vice Motherboard) Link

January 15, 2019: Wild, cosmic-eyed frog rediscovered in a far-off cloud forest (Mashable) Link

January 15, 2019: Romeo the Water Frog Has Finally Found His Juliet — and Their Love Just Might Save His Species (Live Science) Link

January 15, 2019: World’s ‘loneliest’ frog gets a date (BBC) Link

January 15, 2019: Juliet and friends found for Romeo the lonely water frog (The Guardian) Link

January 15, 2019: Romeo, The World’s Loneliest Frog, May Have Finally Found His Juliet (Huffpost) Link

Find Romeo a Match

Feb. 14, 2018: Panda Porn and Other Desperate Measures to Get Rare Species to Mate (National Geographic) Link

Feb. 13, 2018: Scientists Make Match.com Profile for Bolivia’s Loneliest Frog (Smithsonian) Link

Feb. 13, 2018: Help Romeo, the World’s Loneliest Frog, Find His Juliet by Valentine’s Day (Travel + Leisure) Link

Feb.12, 2018: Lonely Bolivian water frog seeks mate on Match.com to save his species (CNN) Link

Feb. 10, 2018: Last effort to find mate for bachelor Sehuncas (BBC Radio 5–interview at 3:48) Link

Feb. 9, 2018: 10 Expedition Teams and Match.com Are Working to Find This Very Single Frog a Date (People Magazine) Link

Feb. 9, 2018: The World’s Loneliest Frog Gets a Dating Profile to Help Him Find Love (IFLS) Link

Feb. 9, 2018: Bolivia’s lonely frog: Scientists race to find mate for Romeo (BBC) Link

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I’m formerly the last known Sehuencas Water Frog but now have hope for true love! I live in the Museo de Historia Natural Alcide d’Orbigny of Cochabamba.

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