Frogs- canaries in the coal mine. Heading out. Bye, Frogs.

Amphibians have proved to be some of the most vulnerable creatures to climate change and pollution, and their numbers have dropped precipitously worldwide. Most people know that frogs porous skin allows water pollution to affect them well before state-mandated pollution levels are reached, and most people also know that frogs' eggs are very vulnerable to temperature change. One of the other interesting threats to amphibians is a fungus that can kill them by growing on their skin, and for the first time this fungus has been cound in Japan.

"Frogs and many other amphibians are acutely sensitive to changes in environmental temperature and humidity as they can not maintain a steady internal temperature to the same extent as birds and mammals.
It is believed to be a major cause of the dramatic reduction of the number of amphibians in many parts of the world."
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