Influence of Visitors on the Time Budget, Ranging and Strata Use of Lowe's Monkey () at Boabeng-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary, Ghana.

Wildlife tourism could be a conservation tool; however, it may disrupt the natural behaviors of wild animals. We examined how wildlife tourism affects Lowe's monkeys () at the Boabeng-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary, central Ghana. We examined and compared the time budget, aggression patterns, home range size and strata use of two groups-one with a high level of provisioning by visitors/tour guides (HP group) versus one with a low level of provisioning by visitors/tour guides (LP group).

A new species of Puddle Frog, genus Phrynobatrachus (Amphibia: Anura: Phrynobatrachidae) from Ghana.

We describe a new species of Phrynobatrachus from the eastern part of the Upper Guinea forest region, Ghana, West Africa. Morphologically, the new species can be distinguished from all of its congeners by the combination of a slender body, short and pointed snout, a relatively warty dorsum, a black-spotted throat in both sexes, a gular flap in males, a dark spotted chest, a white-greyish venter with occasional blackish spots, rudimentary pedal webbing, none to slightly dilated finger tips and strongly delated toe tips, presence of both inner and outer metatarsal tubercles and absence of a dark face mask, eyelid tubercles and longer dorsal ridges. We collected mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence data from the 16S rRNA gene to measure the genetic diversity of the new species, and to estimate phylogenetic relationships.