Romeo the Frog Meets Juliet.

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Romeo was looking for love. Thought to be the last of his kind, the Sehuencas water frog had lived alone for 10 years at the Museo de Historia Natural Alcide d'Orbigny in Bolivia. Researchers had been unsuccessful at finding him a mate in the past, but they were still hoping to save the species from extinction. So last year, they decided to get creative, making a Match.com profile for the "World's Loneliest Frog." It worked: The creature's fans raised $25,000 for an expedition team to look for more frogs in Bolivia's cloud forest. And in January, the museum's chief of herpetology, Teresa Camacho Badani...

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