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Snakes suffered after a frog-killing fungus wiped out their food

JacksinPA

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Snakes suffered after a frog-killing fungus wiped out their food | Science News

Both snake diversity and body size dipped at a site in Panama after chytrid swept through

The frog-killing Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, or chytrid, fungus had begun ravaging amphibian populations in Costa Rica in the early 1990s, and by all indications would eventually reach Panama. So in 1997 Lips, a herpetologist now at the University of Maryland in College Park, and her colleagues scrambled to take stock of the biodiversity at El Copé, a tropical forest field site in central Panama, before the wave hit.

Chytrid did hit El Copé in 2004, eliminating more than 75 percent of the frog population there. But Lips and her colleagues’ foresight allowed them also to assess chytrid’s impact on another part of that ecosystem — snakes.
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I think there is now hope of engineering a related virus to selectively winnow out the biodiversity of right-wingers, the rabid ones first.
 
JacksinPA said:
Snakes suffered after a frog-killing fungus wiped out their food | Science News

Both snake diversity and body size dipped at a site in Panama after chytrid swept through

The frog-killing Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, or chytrid, fungus had begun ravaging amphibian populations in Costa Rica in the early 1990s, and by all indications would eventually reach Panama. So in 1997 Lips, a herpetologist now at the University of Maryland in College Park, and her colleagues scrambled to take stock of the biodiversity at El Copé, a tropical forest field site in central Panama, before the wave hit.

Chytrid did hit El Copé in 2004, eliminating more than 75 percent of the frog population there. But Lips and her colleagues’ foresight allowed them also to assess chytrid’s impact on another part of that ecosystem — snakes.
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I think there is now hope of engineering a related virus to selectively winnow out the biodiversity of right-wingers, the rabid ones first.
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^ You literally try to derail your own thread in the OP!

^ You are another example of why the Democratic Party is vastly more dangerous than Hitler or Stalin ever was. You are the next Democrat to openly post fantasizing of 60,000,000 Americans - everyone who does not submit to the Democratic Party having totalitarian power - to be mass murdered.

Once again, the Democratic Party should have been declared a sedition mass murder terrorist organization at the end of the Civil War. You are another Democrat on this forum to declare your ultimately hope is mass murder of tens of millions of Americans.

This is another reason that conservatives should not surrender 1 millimeter to gun control including to be able to defend against people like you.
 
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