Posted on 06/22/2005 8:52:45 AM PDT by GPBurdell
don't know what you're doing with them --- i've got a bumper crop. seems we have more of 'em every single year.
You're right about that, but we've got to allow some truth-claims to remain standing as a basis for the discussion until we get data that says otherwise. So, I opt to allow the species numbers as a "given", for the time being.
More junk science.
Frogs managed to survive the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. I think they could handle a one-degree change in the world's climate.
But frogs are all over the world. Perhaps they each evolved to deal with the various parasites and funguses that existed in their part of the world, but are ill-equipped to deal with those from another part of the world. Perhaps humans are unwittingly spreading parasites around the world somehow.
Ah, yes, more doom and gloom on the environmental front. The frogs are disappearing. So whaddaya want me to do about it? Seriously, folks, these environmental people remind me of people in the path of a tornado running around in circles screaming "We're all gonna die!!! We're all gonna die!!!" instead of looking for a storm cellar. It's easy to forget how the environmental movement actually accomplished things in the 60's and 70's(the restoration of large species such as wolves and improvements in water quality spring to mind) by offering a message of hope. Today's environmentalists are so relentlessly grim and negative they are the worst enemies of their own worthwhile cause. Maybe they just want everyone to be miserable. I really don't know. But if they were with me on board the USS Earth, and the old ship started taking on water, the first thing I'd do is throw their hysterical, smelly, birkenstocked asses to the sharks and go help the captain and engineers seal the hull. THE FROGS ARE DYING!!! DON'T YOU FEEL TERRIBLE ABOUT IT???? Sorry, Mr. Ponytail. If I paint myself green and run naked down Main Street will Kermit's vital signs improve? These people are so illogical.
There are plenty of frogs on the golf course I play. They are always getting stuck on my spikes.
Bet they don't do that in Boy Scouts anymore!
Anyway, speaking of extinction, whatever happened to all the fireflies in New England? There used to be thousands of them every night in all the back yards. Now nothing. They still have them in Alabama - where I will be in a couple of weeks. But not in New England.
Oh..., THAT kind of frog. I was worried for a minute.
Don't worry. They disappeared for years in Georgia and now they're back.
That's one of the quirks of studying the herps. They go through boom and bust population dynamics like no other. Primarily dependant upon climate (rain not warming/cooling). Toads are notorious for this. Populations really need to be examined at larger scales (5-10 years not nearly enough to establish pop. trends). That said extinctions and declines are 2 different things. The extinctions are definetly alarming!
Priceless!!!
Nope. As far as I'm concerned, the french are on their own.
We stuck fire crackers up their @$$, lit the fuse and ... in mid hop ....
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