Guest guest Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 Frogs Becoming Homogenous as Species Disappear Like neighborhood coffee shops and independent movie theaters around the United States, unusual varieties of frogs are rapidly disappearing from rainforests in Central America A fungal infection seems to be hitting those rare species of frogs harder than common ones, found a new study, leading to local extinctions and a homogenized version of nature where everything is more similar than it used to be. The result is both a less interesting world aesthetically and a less resilient one biologically. " Everyone knew that amphibian declines were really bad, " said ecologist Kevin Smith, of Washington University in St. Louis. " But it looks like it's worse than we actually thought. " And everyone got excited about the technology. And I guess it was pretty incredible watching a missile fly down an air-vent. Pretty unbeliveable. But couldn't we feasibly use that same technology to shoot food at hungry people? You know what I mean? Fly over Ethiopia, " There's a guy that needs a banana. " " Shooooooooooooom " the Stealth Banana Smart Fruit! Bill Hicks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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