abstract:Marty Crump is a behavioral ecologist who works with tropical amphibians in the areas of parental care, reproduction, territoriality, cannibalism, and tadpole ecology. She has published several books based on her research and experiences in tropical areas such as Costa Rica, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina including In Search of the Golden Frog—one of the first books to sound the alarm about the precipitous decline in amphibian populations around the globe.