Part of the point made by Jared Diamond in his chapter on Australia in
COLLAPSE, in which he discusses the way imported species have driven
out indigenous ones. Nice to know some of those frogs are still there,
& in some wet.
Doug
On 5-Dec-07, at 1:28 AM, Max Richards wrote:
> Australians keep saying many species of frogs are vanishing, ominous
> sign of
> big bad changes.
> I fondly recall at night tiny frogs climbing uncurtained windows after
> moths.
> These are now seldom seen.
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