Frogman

It took John Lynch two months to hunt down the frogs that are now stuffed into two glass jars inside his university office here in Colombia's capital. He dips his hands into one of them, spreads several frogs onto a plastic tray, and carefully picks one out.

"There's a jewel," he says, holding one of the tiny "glass" frogs he caught recently in Leticia, near the Brazilian border. "I'm still bubbling over all the damn fantastic frogs I got."

Mr. Lynch, an associate professor at

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