Basically, frogs help protect you from mosquito bites by keeping the bug population in check!

Not only is stealing frogs from their homes and killing them cruel, the removal of frogs from ecosystems also disrupts nature’s delicate balance-populations of waterborne insects skyrocket, resulting in increased crop destruction and the spread of diseases such as malaria. “I know of several biological supply houses in Louisiana and Mississippi which are notorious for finding a pond and collecting every living thing to be found within it … many of our states’ ponds and bogs are devoid of herpetofauna because of this practice.” Department of the Interior has stated that declines in amphibian populations can be attributed in part to the use of amphibians in dissection. Frogs are also among the first species to succumb to environmental pollution and habitat destruction, and their deaths are often the first indicators of environmental problems because they’re so sensitive to their surroundings.Īll species of frogs are disappearing from the Earth at an alarming rate, with a devastating and not yet fully understood environmental impact. As a result, some frog populations have crashed, wiping out entire species. Populations of grass frogs and bullfrogs, the most common victims of high school dissection, are threatened by both mass collection and environmental hazards. Sadly, frogs are the most commonly dissected animals in classes below the university level, although other species, like cats, mice, rats, dogs, rabbits, fetal pigs, and fish, are also sometimes used.

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