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Una rana llamada Romeo (A Frog Named Romeo) - Revisited

Duolingo Spanish Podcast

Duolingo

Education, Society & Culture

4.414.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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A Bolivian biologist studies a lone frog named Romeo, who's in danger of extinction — until she makes him a dating profile and starts an international fundraising campaign to find his Juliet and save the species.

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0:00.0

All the listeners, the bond between humans and animals can be pretty amazing, even life changing.

0:09.7

We have witnessed the power of that connection right here on the Duolingo Spanish

0:14.4

podcast. So for this special season we are revisiting our favorite stories

0:19.8

about people and their friends from the animal kingdom.

0:23.6

Today we're headed to Bolivia for an episode from August 2020.

0:27.4

It features Teresa Camacho, a biologist who's obsessed with a frog in danger of extinction. His name is Romeo and Teresa

0:37.0

launched a hilarious campaign to save his whole species. This is truly one of my favorite stories from the

0:44.9

podcast. Stay tuned until the end for an update about Teresa's work and Romeo. Now

0:51.4

on to the episode.

0:55.0

In 2018, Teresa Camacho went deep inside one of the largest cloud forests in Bolivia.

1:05.0

It was cold. She could feel the mist on her face.

1:09.0

Water dripped off the leaves onto the ground.

1:14.0

The air smelled of flowers, leaves, soil and wood.

1:20.0

I'm mestava me ting end in a cascada, the final of a pecennial,

1:25.0

was our second day of expedition.

1:30.0

I was very nervous because this was the only opportunity that he was to

1:35.0

to encounter what was going to encounter what was bused.

1:41.0

All the key was going on. was

1:45.4

to keep to stop was a point of to try to doaya and regresser the campament.

1:51.4

Teresa is a trained biologist, but at that moment she felt more like a matchmaker, a frog

1:57.6

matchmaker. She and her team were searching for a single female specimen or Imbra of the Sewenka's water frog.

2:07.2

If found this one frog could help prevent an entire species from disappearing.

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