[Odonata-l] BBC - Earth News - Legless frogs mystery solved

[Dennis Paulson]

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> From: "Mike Patterson" <celata at pacifier.com>
> Date: June 27, 2009 7:44:09 PM PDT
> To: nw_odonata at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [nw_odonata] Re: BBC - Earth News - Legless frogs mystery  
> solved
> Reply-To: nw_odonata at yahoogroups.com
>
> As is so often the case with science "news" this doesn't actually  
> solve the mystery. It's explains some of the cases of the missing  
> limb phenomena.
>
> I was at an amphibian conference in 2008 where one of the speakers  
> was Mike Lannoo. In his talk, Lannoo stressed that many folks were  
> looking for easy, non-anthropogenic answers. He was able to show,  
> through slides of many frog x-rays why predation answered only a  
> fraction of the malformation cases. Chemicals, cattle and  
> urbanization are all still contributors.
>
> He's written an entire book on the subject, _Malformed Frogs: The  
> Collapse of Aquatic Ecosystems_ (2008). An excerpt of the first  
> chapter can be found at:https://www.ucpress.edu/books/chapters/ 
> 11098.ch01.pdf
>
>
> __,_._,___

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