Frogs have always interested me! I use to keep them as pets until they started to escape and end up all over the house I am very concerned about this chytrid fungus that is killing many of the frogs on our planet. This fungus occurs naturally but because of habitat loss and the use of leopard frogs in pregnancy tests, frog survival is very much at risk! There is a bacteria that has been used to treat infected frogs but the task is monumental when it comes to the number of infections and how quickly frogs can die when infected!

The following articles go into much more frog detail and are very interesting:

FROG MATTERS

FROGBLOG1: Chytridiomycosis and global amphibian decline

FROGBLOG2:Origin and spread of the frog chytrid

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Frogs have always interested me! I use to keep them as pets until they started to escape and end up all over the house I am very concerned about this chytrid fungus that is killing many of the frogs on our planet. This fungus occurs naturally but because of habitat loss and the use of leopard frogs in pregnancy tests, frog survival is very much at risk! There is a bacteria that has been used to treat infected frogs but the task is monumental when it comes to the number of infections and how quickly frogs can die when infected!

The following articles go into much more frog detail and are very interesting:

FROG MATTERS

FROGBLOG1: Chytridiomycosis and global amphibian decline

FROGBLOG2:Origin and spread of the frog chytrid

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 at 1:15 pm and is filed under nature, animals, environment, photography. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.