TY - BOOK AU - Souder,William TI - A plague of frogs: the horrifying true story SN - 0786863609 : AV - QL668.E2 S737 2000 PY - 2000/// CY - New York PB - Hyperion KW - Frogs KW - Abnormalities KW - Research KW - Indicators (Biology) N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-299) N2 - In the tradition of "The Hot Zone" comes an explosive investigation into a global catastrophe in the making. Moving from America's swamps and wetlands to laboratories and government back rooms, Souder dramatically reveals the warning implicit in an outbreak of mutated frogs, explaining the importance of the amphibians to our fragile ecosystems and suggesting what their possible extinction means to the habitability of the planet for all species, including the human race ER -