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Articles in March, 1994 issue of Ranger Rick

• Frogs save people: medicines from rainforest frogs - use of frog skin chemicals as medicine - Cover Story
• Myth busters! - myths and facts about animals
• Rangers - hunting and selling exotic birds that are possibly endangered species
• Whenever my dog finds a dead animal, she rolls around on it until she smells really gross; why does she do this? - instinctive behavior in dogs
• Too many toads - overpopulation of toads in Florida - Cover Story
• Sky-diving frogs rain down - Puerto Rican coqui frogs freefall from trees - Cover Story
• Love me? - mating behavior of African crowned cranes
  by Gerry Bishop
• Did dinosaurs sleep? - scientific beliefs on dinosaurs' sleeping behavior
• My very own monster pet - poem
  by Charles Ghigna
• Froggie fan clubs - children adopt ponds in Adopt a Pond programs - Cover Story
• Kids choose state frog - school children name green tree frog as state frog of Louisiana - Cover Story
• My hairy neighbors: meet some pig-like animals that "talk" with stinky smells! - behavior of wild pigs called peccaries
  by Susan Lowell
• Is it true that sharks live only in salt water? - some sharks live in lakes and rivers
• I've been wondering why my cat purrs and 'how' she purrs?
• Frogs follow their noses - North American wood frogs use smell recognition in searching for ponds - Cover Story
• Pollution patrol - children help clean up polluted river near Portland Oregon
  by Anna Mearns
• Adventures of Ranger Rick - short story
  by Kathy Walsh
• Why is a mosquito called a mosquito? - Spanish origin of the word
• Are all frogs disappearing? - frogs are becoming extinct due to environmental problems - Cover Story
• Endangered toad adopted - school children in Guanica, Puerto Rico work to save crested toad from extinction - Cover Story
• Squirmy worms and other wild treats - recipes for salad, snack and sandwich
• I saw a picture of a temple viper in the February issue of 'Ranger Rick;' why is it called "temple" viper? - how snake got its name
• Little jumpers - facts about jumping spiders; includes large photos
  by Deborah Churchman