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Don't Lick This Frog
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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
9:55:00 AM EDT
Hearing World Party -- The Waterboys
Paul Ouboter, Conservation International / AP
How cool looking is this frog? It's not even Photoshopped -- and the purple parts fluoresce. Endangered? Oh, probably:
A purple fluorescent frog is one of 24 new species found in the South American highlands of Suriname , conservationists reported on Monday, warning that these creatures are threatened by illegal gold mining.
The two-tone frog -- whose skin is covered with irregular fluorescent lavender loops on a background of aubergine -- was discovered in 2006 as part of a survey of Suriname's Nassau plateau, the conservation group said.
I think it's nice that the world still surprises us with animals and things we didn't know. I also hope we're not wiping them out faster than we can find them.
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9:55:00 AM EDT
Hearing World Party -- The Waterboys
Don't Lick This Frog
Paul Ouboter, Conservation International / AP
How cool looking is this frog? It's not even Photoshopped -- and the purple parts fluoresce. Endangered? Oh, probably:
A purple fluorescent frog is one of 24 new species found in the South American highlands of Suriname , conservationists reported on Monday, warning that these creatures are threatened by illegal gold mining.
The two-tone frog -- whose skin is covered with irregular fluorescent lavender loops on a background of aubergine -- was discovered in 2006 as part of a survey of Suriname's Nassau plateau, the conservation group said.
I think it's nice that the world still surprises us with animals and things we didn't know. I also hope we're not wiping them out faster than we can find them.
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Now there's an amphibian that's definitely stuck in the 80's.
Well, of course it's endangered. I mean, I'll go out on a limb here and say that's probably not the best sort of camouflage for living in the Suriname highlands. And, while we're at it, what the hell took them so long to find the thing?!?
Sure, it's one thing for something like that to blend in with the front row of a Duran Duran concert, but out in the wild, that little frog's got to stick out like a sore thumb.
-Dan
http://journals.aol.com/dpoem/TheWisdomofaDistractedMind/
6/6/07 11:03 PM