'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, July 31, 2011

More chytrid fungus

hey! remember the last post I made? in part of the post, I was talking about chytrid fungus.Well today, I found an article talking about different techniques to " prevent the effects of the disease and curb potential future extinctions."
 the article said that the researchers warn it is still too soon to recommend the treatments, as the fungus may develop a resistance to them.
            one technique from the article was keeping infected tadpoles in a place that is over 68.9 degrees
          fahrenheit, which is hotter than they are used to. Then when they are grown up, they are set free.
          of course, this doesn't always work.
          scientists have also tried bathing frogs in antifungal itraconazole, which slows down the infection of  chytrid fungus.

 article website: http://www.livescience.com/15315-frog-fungus-treatment.html

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