But state officials hope they can stop the frogs from taking over Oahu, the most populated island.
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We go up to her room, where all the frogs are, and sit on her built-in window seat.
In fact, the frogs that have been in the pot for a while sometimes decades insist things are just fine.
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Timber felling and mining are a much greater risk to the frogs he has studied in Peru, he says.
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County, state and private groups came up with plans to get rid of the frogs, including tracking populations through GPS devices.
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"The frogs in the Caribbean are in very bad shape, " Joglar said.
In 2012, the Frogs will join the Big East, an automatic qualifying conference, and will theoretically have a better chance to play for the title.
The European Commission banned their import in 1997 due to fears that the frogs, which have voracious appetites and are not choosy eaters, would destroy native wildlife.
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The frogs get cooked, along with their shareholders and employees.
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Don't worry, the frogs and locusts were filled with marshmallows.
He became an activist on the issue a dozen years ago when state officials discussed an effort to combat the frogs on the Big Island by bombing them with a diluted caffeine spray in an effort to give them heart attacks.
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The 6-foot-2, 220 pounder with sprinter's speed he was an all-American in the 400-meter hurdles grabbed plenty of headlines and attention with that first Friday performance against the Horned Frogs and ended the first month of the season with more touchdown passes than incompletions.
"You are not hearing what you were before, " said Alberto Lopez, part of a husband-and-wife team of biologists trying to gauge the health of frogs on the island.
The tadpoles take around three or four months to turn into frogs and this batch could leave the pond as frogs in June or July.
Some believe that these events may give a clue to the origin of the plague of frogs recorded in the Book of Exodus.
In the quiet of the night, over the hum of the crickets and frogs, there were the screams and moans, spreading over the camp like a storm.
TCU, which beat lowly UNLV 56-9, would need to move into the top 16 in the final BCS standings on Sunday to earn an automatic bid, because the Big East's conference champion West Virginia will most likely not jump ahead of the Horned Frogs.
In percentage terms, the worst situation for frogs is the Caribbean, where more than 80 percent of species are threatened or extinct in the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Jamaica and more than 90 percent in Haiti, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
Finally, our train heaves out of the station and past the creeks of Mombasa Island, belching out plumes of thick smoke as we swoop around shanty towns where corrugated iron roofs glisten in the rain, and ditches where frogs croak in the darkness.
The high-pitched chirps of coqui frogs echoed among the vines.
The air was alive with moths and the chirrups of frogs and cicadas.
Another 31 million is used to irrigate crops, and 39 million more flows through rivers and streams, keeping the fish and frogs wet.
After its success, many other incubators, including eCompanies , eHatchery , Internet Capital Group and the funky Venture Frogs (one of their ventures was BBQ.com), sprung up.
If you dislike stories about parasitic worms that slither out of the noses of frogs, put your hands on your ears and say, la-la-la-la-la-la for about 90 seconds.
Among research efforts on the fungus is one by Lopez and Longo, who have been catching frogs in the forest, checking them for Bd and ticks, and then releasing them back into the night.
The researchers studied male leopard frogs across a large area of the US and found a high proportion to be developing female characteristics where they swam in waters contaminated with the herbicide.
Describes how graduate student Karen Lips observed the mysterious disappearance of large numbers of local golden frogs, in the nineteen-nineties, at several locations in Panama and Costa Rica.
She started in 1946 as a receptionist in the lab, where she helped out by catheterizing male frogs to get the urine specimens used in pregnancy tests at the time.
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