Recently, Dr. Kanto Nishikawa, the assistant professor of Kyoto University, visited CIB and carried out collaborated researches at the invitation of the Evolution and Conservation Research Group (led by Prof. Jiang Jianping).
During this period, he made a presentation and surveyed amphibians in Mt. Wuyi and southern Chongqing. Dr. Nishikawa is majored in the taxonomy and life history study of salamanders, especially Hynobius species.

 Dr. Kanto Nishikawa prefers to study in Southeast Asia though there are some problems in accommodation, language and culture difference. It is his ninth visit to China and he hopes his Chinese colleagues could also conduct research abroad although there are many endemic amphibian species in China, for it would broaden their viewpoints about the amazing adaptation and evolution of species as well as to improve their research work. 

Dr. Kanto Nishikawa collecting Hynobius larvae at a high mountain, covered by snow, in Chongqing

Alkaloid-storing Dwarf Frogs Microhyla nepenticola in Borneo, Malaysia, possibly the smallest frog in the world.

The frog Rhacophorus nigropalmatus could fly, with long limbs and fully webbed fingers and toads.