'He is indeed the best of animals,' replied Rat, 'So simple, so good-natured, and so affectionate. Perhaps he's not very clever - we can't all be geniuses, and it may be that he is both boastful and conceited. But he has got some great qualities, has Toady.'

Sunday, January 9, 2011

( I got the first 2 quoted sentences from: Neotropical Poison Frogs (Draft 2) )

Frogs are very amazing! especially their poison!
One species, Phyllobates terribilis, has enough toxin in its skin to kill up to 20,000 mice, or 10 humans.
:0 !!!!! WOW!  then the website says...
While other organisms have learned to avoid these tiny forgs, humans have learned to use these frogs for both survival and medicine.
This is what I was leading to. This time I am going to talk about frogs in medicine, not in medical research. Some frogs' poisons and chemicals cane be used in medicine.

A chemical extracted from the skin of an Ecuadorian frog has turned out to be a painkiller 200 times as potent as morphine. The chemical, dubbed epibatidine after the frog (Epipedobates tricolor), seems to work in a different way to current painkillers, blocking hitherto unknown receptors in the brain.

 WOW WOW WOW!!!!!! you learn new things every day! Frogs used  in medicines and research is another reason to conserve frogs. If we lose them, we lose medicine. It will also mess up the enviroment.
(and frogs are soooo cute!!)

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