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- From: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
- Newsgroups: talk.rumors
- Subject: Re: missing amphibians
- Message-ID: <BD.92Jul31082523@fluent.UUCP>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 12:25:23 GMT
- References: <l7g37jINN732@victoria.cs.utexas.edu>
- Sender: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
- Reply-To: bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU
- Organization: Fluent Inc., Lebanon NH
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- In-Reply-To: geebs@cs.utexas.edu's message of 30 Jul 92 15:38:27 GMT
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- in article <l7g37jINN732@victoria.cs.utexas.edu> geebs@cs.utexas.edu (Gabriel Benjamin Manriquez) writes:
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- >I read that amphibians are diappearing all over the planet.
- >They will be extinct within ten years.
- >
- >Amphibians are good indicators of the 'health' of the ecosystem.
- >It's only a matter of time before the other animals are affected:
- >fish . . . reptiles . . . birds . . . mammals . . .
- >
- >Is any of this true?
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- Some of it is sort of true. I can't site references, but I heard a report
- on this on National Public Radio a few months ago.
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- Apparently in some places some species of frogs are disappearing. Nothing
- as cataclysmic as your post suggests.
-
- The cause is not known - amphibians are considered an indicator species, but
- what their decline indicates is not yet known.
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- Brice Dowaliby | I may speak fluently, but
- (bd%fluent@dartmouth.edu) | I don't speak for Fluent
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