{"id":814,"date":"2007-05-09T14:26:02","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T18:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesthisweek.wordpress.com\/?p=814"},"modified":"2024-07-01T16:39:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T20:39:17","slug":"taegan-mcmahon-07-gives-frogs-the-acid-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2007\/05\/09\/taegan-mcmahon-07-gives-frogs-the-acid-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Taegan McMahon &#039;07 gives frogs the acid test"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 145px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/images\/ocr\/faces\/student-McMahon-2007-WEB.jpg\" alt=\"Taegan McMahon 07\" width=\"135\" height=\"185\" \/><\/p>\n<p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taegan McMahon &#039;07<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A childhood trip to the rainforests of Costa Rica introduced Taegan McMahon &#8217;07 to poison dart frogs. Immediately, she was smitten. \u201cThey are very cool and absolutely beautiful,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Back home to Noank, Conn., McMahon raised them as pets.\u00a0By sophomore year at Bates, she knew the inch-and-a-half amphibian would be a big part of her biology senior thesis.<\/p>\n<p>Advised by Assistant Professor of Biology Ryan Bavis, she investigated how acid rain \u2014 a relatively new rainforest phenomenon\u00a0\u2014 might affect the growth of the dart-frog species\u00a0Epipedobates tricolor.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x159434.xml\">[More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A childhood trip to the rainforests of Costa Rica introduced Taegan McMahon &#8217;07 to poison dart frogs. Immediately, she was smitten. \u201cThey are very cool and absolutely beautiful,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[1690,11001,7842],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology","tag-biology","tag-north-america","tag-senior-thesis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92970,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/92970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}