FADING FROGS: Researchers writing in the current issue of Nature report having discovered a strong correlation between extinction of harlequin frogs, which live in Central and South America, and global warming. Apparently, the toastier temperatures are ideal for the growth of a chytrid fungus that is deadly for the amphibians.
Note: My Mom used to tell me a Korean folktale as a little girl about a bad frog who always did the opposite of what his Mom told him...She would say, "Now, you've got to learn how to croak...CROAK!" The bad frog would laugh and bark like a dog...And when it was time for chores, he ran away...Finally his Mom got very sick and thinking that her son would do the opposite, on her deathbed she requested that he bury her next to river hoping he would bury her body in the mountain...The bad frog felt so badly for how he treated his poor Mom that he listened to her last request and buried her body next to the river...Her body floated away down the river during the rains and that is why frogs cry when it is raining...
Koreans can tell some messed up stories...Heh...
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