Our class assignment this week was to make a drawing that made a statement about a subject we were passionate about. This unfortunate Leopard Frog was my choice. In agricultural areas around the country, frogs are showing up with extra legs, deformed legs, or retaining their tadpole tails. Many don't survive the transition from tadpole to frog. These alarming mutations are a result of fertilizer runoff causing algal blooms that in turn result in an explosion of water snails. These snails harbor flatworms that infect the cells of tadpoles, causing the deformations as the tadpole transforms to a frog. As John Muir said, everything in the universe is interconnected.
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Wow. That's really rather beautiful and haunting.
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