Forget thugs, it's the frogs we're after
OK, that was quite an amusing quote!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080806/ap_ … ogs_seized

What I find really annoying in all this, is that the animal smugglers aren't even getting a fine! You speed 7 miles over the speed limit, you get a nice fat ticket. But smuggling illegal and dangerous animals, that's OK... What the hell is wrong with these people?! I really feel sorry for the animals more than anything else. People like that treat life as if it's nothing more than $. Bleh...

Anyway, I've heard that the smuggling of wild animals (like the smuggling of people) is a huge business world wide. Has anyone studied this topic? I wonder what kind of people actually own exotic animals? (I'm thinking very rich and stupid).

cheers,

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I read recently that amphibians are in more trouble than bees. Amphibians need both land and water. They did put up a good fight, having lasted some 400 million years. In some sense, humans are more powerful than any natural disaster. If a large asteroid were to strike the Earth, the amphibians, reptiles, and arthropods would do very well, based on their history. We mammals are the newest addition to the animal kingdom, and our durability has not yet been tested (unless you consider dinosaurs mammals, which some people do).

So here we are worried about frogs on the street, as if we're going to halt 400 million years of evolution. The funny thing is, we really can. But an asteroid (several of them, actually) could not.