Please see:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5151892.stm
2006-07-09 04:16:49 · 12 answers · asked by rodneycrater 3 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Does the removal of so many species have any local or global significance we should be concerned about?
2006-07-09 04:26:05 · update #1
By the way, this is not how I feel, see my other questions and you will understand.
2006-07-09 07:04:02 · update #2
I do believe it's more that a few frogs. We're talking about several species of amphibians. Are you aware of how many insects that are eaten by frogs alone? Insects are the most numerous things on earth. Without frogs, the human population would soon be overrun by the insect world. Then the chemical pesticides would be used even more than they already are, making our air even more unfit to breathe. I'll try to do my part to help our environment.
2006-07-09 10:49:06 · answer #1 · answered by organic gardener 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
During surgical operations the aneasthetist gives you something to make you fall asleep and stop you feeling pain. What most people don't realise is that in most operations they also need to give you a second drug to make your muscles relax otherwise they would be twitching about and it would be difficult to sew them up properly afterwards. [this is why when you have an operation they connect you to a breathing machine - your rib muscles stop working because of the muscle relaxant drug]
Why is this about frogs? The drug used is CURARE - it was originally used by South American natives on their poison arrows. Curare comes from the skin of FROGS. It would not have been discovered if the frogs had been extinct.
Who can say whether some other useful drug or cure might be found in a particular species of frog, lizard, insect, plant or any other living thing - but one thing's for certain... we won't ever find it if that species has died out.
Every type of living thing has something unique about it - this in itself is reason enough for it to be allowed to continue to survive even before you start to consider what benefits it might bring to other living things, to the planet... and to us.
If it's OK to let a bunch of frogs die then what next? pandas? tigers? elephants? where would you draw the line... horses? cats? dogs? humans? everyone except your family?
2006-07-09 11:50:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We do worry about the frogs as human beings and as can be witnessed by are smiling faces in the windows. We think they are pretty. I doubt you'd catch many people that would intentionally harm them. That is not human nature. Don't bother us with diversity and potential cures for cancer, we hear you, think it silly but possible and we like the frogs anyway.
Now if you are asking us why we don't seem to care that would be because too many environmentalist have chosen to abuse their power and sue-stop every human act. Humans are smarted then that. As a taxpayer it goes one step deeper, seems all the problems go away as I fund a mass transit system or high cost studies (that achieve nothing but to line consultants pockets) -- my spidy senses tell me the corporate donors have a lot to gain by using your little frogs.
2006-07-09 11:49:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Frogs live in the same place as us,if they can't evolve to live in the environment that we have changed,what chance do we have.They are a barometer of things to come.They are the one of the ripples in the pond,if you will.Please loose the redneck tude before you pass the mental illness onto your kids.
2006-07-09 11:38:22 · answer #4 · answered by Beeman11 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In olden days they used to send a canary down in mines. If the canary died then it meant that there was poisonous gas. Amphibians are more susceptible to changes in UV and hard metals then humans are. They also help keep mosquitoes away.
2006-07-09 11:22:28 · answer #5 · answered by steveed 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every time another species dies out we are further upsetting the delicate balance of nature. That's why we should care.
2006-07-09 16:26:55 · answer #6 · answered by celticwoman777 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They make some good wine and cheese....but that's about it. I'm okay with no frogs in exchange for no wine and no cheese, actually....
2006-07-09 11:20:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hopefully you never have children and we can wipe your genes out of the gene pool you piece of ****!
2006-07-09 12:58:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they keep our planets health incheck by showing envrionmental issues through genetic deiviation
2006-07-09 11:30:35 · answer #9 · answered by diggin_thedirt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They eat mosquito's that carry dis'eases.
2006-07-09 11:30:28 · answer #10 · answered by MilkWeed 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋