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PHOTOS: Mountains fed Amazon's poison frog diversity
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| March. 20, 2009
| Emily Sohn
Posted on 03/22/2009 6:49:33 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono
it runs down hill?
Whoda thunk it?
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03/22/2009 6:52:09 PM PDT
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null and void
(We are now in day 62 of our national holiday from reality.)
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03/22/2009 6:53:35 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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03/22/2009 6:55:07 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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03/22/2009 6:56:10 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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03/22/2009 6:57:38 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
I have a plastic blue dart frog on the leaf of a bromeliad in my office.
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03/22/2009 7:02:00 PM PDT
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bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . John Galt hell !...... where is Francisco dÂ’Anconia)
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03/22/2009 7:07:25 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono; frog in a pot; smokingfrog
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03/22/2009 7:18:26 PM PDT
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null and void
(We are now in day 62 of our national holiday from reality.)
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03/22/2009 7:20:44 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
[snip] A new study found that populations of poison frogs made their way from the Andes to the Amazon about a dozen times over the last 10 million years. Scientists suspect that the mountains have long been supplying the jungle with other species of plants and animals, too. [end]
The African Source Of The Amazon’s Fertlizer
Science News Magazine | 11-18-2006 | Sid Perkins
Posted on 11/18/2006 4:22:58 PM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1740969/posts
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03/22/2009 7:24:38 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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Evolution in Your Face
by Patrick Huyghe
Omni
Lake Victoria, Africa's largest lake, is home to more than 300 species of cichlids. These fish, which are popular in aquariums, are deep-bodied and have one nostril, rather than the usual two, on each side of the head. Seismic profiles and cores of the lake taken by a team headed by Thomas C. Johnson of the University of Minnesota, reveal that the lake dried up completely about 12,400 years ago. This means that the rate of speciation of cichlid fishes has been extremely rapid: something on average of one new species every 40 years!
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Thanks JoeProBono. I could make some awful puns about this, but I won't.
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03/22/2009 7:27:08 PM PDT
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03/22/2009 8:21:12 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
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03/22/2009 8:23:47 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono
I loved the pic’s. Thanks for posting this.
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03/23/2009 12:45:34 AM PDT
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Gator113
(For America to Survive, Obama Must Fail..... Obama=Failure in Chief with the Audacity of Dope.....)
To: JoeProBono
Oooo, pretty!
I read that the frogs need to eat poison ants & bugs to maintain their “poisoness” (is that a word?). IOW, without poison in their diets, they’d just be bright pretty meals with a high extinction rate.
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03/23/2009 12:50:03 PM PDT
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Travis T. OJustice
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03/23/2009 12:57:15 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
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