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Natural History, Dec, 2005 by Laurence A. Marschall
But the book's title doesn't do justice to the accompanying text, which is hopping with delightful bits of frog lore. Did you know that frogs in the genus Phyllomedusa have opposable digits? Were you fully aware that some frogs in Europe and North America routinely freeze in winter and return to life with the spring thaw? The only downside to the book is frogdom's uncertain future. The Monteverde golden toad is already extinct, and a third of the world's frog species are now threatened by environmental toxins, fungal infections, and the indiscriminate draining of wetlands.
LAURENCE A. MARSCHALL, author of The Supernova Story, is W.K. T. Sahm Professor of Physics at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, and director of Project CLEA, which produces widely used simulation software for education in astronomy. He is the 2005 winner of the Education Prize of the American Astronomical Society.
COPYRIGHT 2005 Natural History Magazine, Inc.
COPYRIGHT 2008 Gale, Cengage Learning
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