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Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Frog Gone?
Lots of amphibians ending up as roadkill, says research |
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21 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 11:40 AM on 21 Apr 2008 Need a new reason to hate cars? You're in luck! Death by vehicle could be a major contributing factor in declining numbers of amphibians, according to new research published in the journal Herpetological Conservation and Biology. (Hee hee, they said "herpetological.") Intrepid road-kill researchers from Purdue University spent 17 months schlepping up 10, ... |
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