A new plague? or just too much pollution?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070925/ap_on_sc/deformed_frogs
2007-09-25 03:04:39 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Frogs are known for being sort of canaries in the coalmine for pollution.
2007-09-25 03:10:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Too much pollution. Unfortunately deformed frogs are not a new thing. I can remember a report on them in the late 80's. This usually happens around factories that deal with chemicals.
2007-09-25 03:09:50 · answer #2 · answered by blue chaos soɐɥɔ ǝnlq 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's not just frogs, fish in the Potomac are being born deformed as well, due to high pollution levels.
This is sad news, but is not a R&S topic or a S&C topic unless you want to ask what society can do to help stop it, or what cultural changes we can make to lighten our "footprint" on the earth.
2007-09-25 03:15:55 · answer #3 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is an environmental science question -- not a religious question. The increase in deformed frogs will have a natural explanation, and you don't need to resort to medieval thinking about plagues and portents to explain it.
2007-09-25 03:10:51 · answer #4 · answered by Sandy G 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
We would be frightened to know the amount of pollution that surrounds us and what's it's doing to us let alone frogs. It's scary.
2007-09-25 03:11:14 · answer #5 · answered by Yogini 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think its too much pollution, they have been around for awhile. The plague is something to do with them dieing I think.
2007-09-25 03:10:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The frogs here in Minnesota were deformed by excessive solar radiation... I'll find a link... (ozone layer weakening).
http://www.cgee.hamline.edu/frogs/science/malform.html
http://www.cgee.hamline.edu/frogs/science/declines.html
2007-09-25 03:10:25 · answer #7 · answered by Ũniνέгsäl Рдnтsthέisт™ 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Could this be the transitional species that proves evolution? I think so, lol.
If not, then this question is in the wrong category and has nothing to do with R&S.
2007-09-25 03:13:00 · answer #8 · answered by Octal040 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Let me guess!
Divine intervention? There must be some kind of explanation here... let's hear it from the Pope :-)
2007-09-25 03:32:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's the result of a parasite.
2007-09-25 03:09:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋