[GPBurdell]

Should we stop saying "save the whales" and say "save the frogs?"

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[Red Badger]

It's bad if frogs croak..........

[oldleft]

SAVE THE JACKOFFASUAR!

[stylecouncilor]

[martin_fierro]

[mnehring]

I believe we can blame this one on the French

[hardworking]

Schucks. I think the world would be better off if the French were extinct.

[agere_contra]

Oh, this thread is about amphibians! My bad. Nothing to see ...

[CJ Wolf]

"Frogs and toads are becoming extinct all over the world. It's the same magnitude event as the extinction of the dinosaurs," said Luis Coloma, a herpetologist,

I got more frogs in my small fish pond then fish. Different species from big ones to small ones. The lake across the street is humming with them. Dinosaours on the other hand, there isn't many of them around. Luis should go back to studing herpes.

[DeepRed]

More environmental alarmism from the far-left.

[meowmeow]

"Frogs and toads are becoming extinct all over the world. It's the same magnitude event as the extinction of the dinosaurs,"

What's the big deal? We've gotten along just find without all those pesky dinosaurs.

[Doctor Stochastic]

This has been noticed for some time, since the 1950s at least. The reasons are not clear. Fungus, virus, climate, loss of habitat, etc., are all possible explinations jointly or severally.

[kinghorse]

Adios Mofos.

Seriously, no shortage of toads in my yard these last two years. It's practically a toad invasion.

[RightWhale]

Toads and frogs are dying out under pressure from the expansion of agriculture, forestry, pollution, disease and climate change, NatureServe said.

All the frogs came out of the pond one night, went someplace, and never came back.

[zencat]

It ain't easy being green!

[LittleMoe]

Deformities undoubtedly impair amphibian survival and most likely contribute to the dramatic declines in populations

[Froufrou]

Could it be that too many poison-dipped arrows have lead to the frogs' demise? What's the frog to arrow ratio?

Yes, it's bad when frogs croak...rotflmao...but I guess this is serious.

[Pessimist]

"We have to change the idea that they are ugly and slimy. They are beautiful, diverse species, just like hummingbirds or butterflies," ... Only uglier... and slimier.

[Publius6961]

They may want to hurry because the treasure trove of the world's frogs and toads is disappearing at a catastrophic rate. And it's not just potential medicines which could be vanishing but creatures of beauty.

This childish and simpleminded verbal handwringing always makes me laugh. There is a missing ingredient in that pollyana statement: the deadliest scourge disease in history might also lurk there.

Had anyone heard of AIDS before 1978?

[G Larry]

I was upset when they dried up our old "polliwog pond" from my childhood.

I'm over it now, with the overabundance of toads in the halls of congress.

[adam_az]

"Frogs and toads are becoming extinct all over the world. It's the same magnitude event as the extinction of the dinosaurs,"

...which was clearly the fault of Global Warming, SUV's, and capitalism..... erm.....

Wait, you mean the earths climate changed all on it's own without our intervention???

Gosh. What a concept!