[Steve Eisenberg]

They've been likened to canaries in the coalmines

These fragile canaries lived at the same time as the dinosaurs. All the dinosaurs died, but the frogs lived. Some canaries.

What is true is that animal populations fluctuate. I do remember there being more frogs around when I was a kid, but also a lot less geese and deer.

[Mudboy Slim]

"...animal populations fluctuate. I do remember there being more frogs around when I was a kid, but also a lot less geese and deer."

Perhaps Bambi is eating Kermit...MUD