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09-15-2005, 03:31 PM | #1 |
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Frogs
Well, I suppose most people could have guessed I'd make a thread like this some day. But this article: Frog action plan to cost millions provided me with a good set-up.
Frogs are common on all populated continents, no mean feat. They're a very versatile sort of animal. Beside your common garden pool, they can be found from desert to thundra to rainforest. Personally I am very fond of frogs and even did my last year's final report on their world-wide decline. So this is something I try to keep up with. And I'm rooting for any programme that wants to preserve frog-species. Not only because, as the article states, frogs are a warning system to environmental changes, but also because they are valuable for medical research (and yes, also ust because I love them bulgy-eyed buggers!). Feel free to discuss.
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09-15-2005, 03:33 PM | #2 |
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Well, I'm not even supposed to still be online (WHAT a moot addict I am ) but I can't resist this thread because I LOVE FROGS so very, very much! I love frogs. Anyway...
Tens of millions of dollars a year is a drop in the bucket when one looks at how much friggin' government money is funneled into weapons research, wars, bomb-building, and other stuff like that. I'd happily pay more taxes to save frogs rather than to build bombs. Meh.
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09-15-2005, 04:25 PM | #3 |
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Interesting timing for this thread - I just read something last night about frogs! In my son's science book, it described how the Navajo (IIRC) Indians here in the US dissect sheep instead of frogs (usually frogs are dissected in high school biology class) because sheep are considered food animals and frogs aren't, and they would have to do some type of ceremony to restore balance if they killed a frog. And when they're done with the sheep, they make stew, etc. with it.
I'll look it up when he gets home. What types of things do frogs provide to the environment? I don't know much about them.
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09-15-2005, 04:32 PM | #4 |
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That's cool, Rian. Not strictly related, being about toads, but in the bulging file labelled "Brits, Quirky" you will find the following road sign:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/reallywi...ght_toads2.jpg Coz at certain times of year the toads all get the horn and dive across the road to get it on in a mass orgy in their favourite pond. |
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That's an interesting tid-bit about the Navajo's, RÃ*an. Thanks for sharing.
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09-15-2005, 05:26 PM | #6 |
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Heh. Meantime they've lost the urge.
They are cool, they can breathe through their skins. When I was a kid my dad dug a pond in the garden which I put frog spawn in. I loved watching them hatch out, grow legs and turn into frogs. Years (20+) later, there was still a big colony which kept all the slugs down in the gardens all around. Then my parents sold the house and the new owner filled in the pond because she hated frogs. |
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the bull frogs
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11-08-2005, 07:51 PM | #9 |
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The plan that is mentioned in the article is geared at safeguarding the endangered and declining frog-species. Bull frogs, as being a very succesful coloniser and survivor, doesn't not fit in either of those two groups. So I take it this is not a species that needs or will benefit from this plan.
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12-13-2005, 08:32 PM | #10 |
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Lookit!! Teeny weenie baby froglets.
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12-13-2005, 10:23 PM | #11 |
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02-29-2008, 07:34 AM | #13 |
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Well, that and today is the birthday of Entmoot member MrGreenFrog. How auspicious!
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02-29-2008, 03:36 PM | #14 |
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Signed the petition, and made a small donation. Thanks for the heads up.
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Thanks guys. 't is much appreciated.
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