Silicon Valley millionaires currently impress their friends by buying an amphibian vehicle to avoid the commuter traffic on the Bay Bridge.
Other amphibians use camouflage to avoid being detected.
On the other hand, many amphibians accelerate development to avoid desiccation, often at the cost of body size [55 and authors therein].
The donor chamber was covered by a piece of Fixomull® (BSN medical GmbH, Hannover, Germany) moistened regularly with amphibian Ringer's solution to avoid desiccation of the skin.
My name's George, and I haven't had an oil well in three days... 20 The Princess and the Frog - Teaser Teaser for forthcoming Disney film The Princess and the Frog, which sees the princess offering "a nice firm handshake" in a last-ditch attempt to avoid snogging the amphibian.
The northern quoll is threatened by toxic cane toads, but a University of Sydney project revealed in 2010 is teaching them to avoid eating the invasive amphibians.
Fortunately, the spread of the chytrid fungus can be predicted once it has struck, its presence can be detected with diligent monitoring, and amphibian populations can be brought into captivity in order to avoid the disease.
Many protease inhibitor peptides have been identified from amphibian skins, which are supposed to negatively modulate the activity of proteases to avoid premature degradation or release of skin peptides, or to inhibit extracellular proteases produced by invading bacteria.
Both in the wild and in captivity, amphibians are often marked for a variety of reasons, for example, to identify individuals, to avoid resampling, or to conduct mark-release-recapture surveys.
It might seem blindingly obvious, but the first piece of advice given by reptile and amphibian experts (or herpetologists, to give them their formal name) is to try to avoid getting bitten in the first place.
