There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. (Quote by Buddha) (via insashi)
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Baby frogs
Don’t be fooled by the kindly eyes and half smiles. What you’re looking at here are potential frozen zombies, aka wood frogs.
Frighteningly well adapted to their chilly northern North American habitats, wood frogs are among the animal world’s “zombies”—Halloween-y creatures that’ve evolved the ability to twitch back from the brink of death.
Lab tests have shown wood frogs to survive being frozen nearly solid—with up to 70 percent of their internal water turned to ice—for about four weeks, usually in forest burrows, according to researchers at the Laboratory for Ecophysiological Cryobiology at Miami University, Ohio. The frogs’ resilience is linked to a shifting of water to areas less likely to be damaged by freezing, as well as natural “antifreeze” in their blood.
During thawing, wood frogs’ hearts begin beating again, and normal movement returns within about a day, scientists say.
ANIMAL “ZOMBIES”: Nature’s “Walking Dead” in Pictures | National Geographic
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An endangered Agalychnis annae, commonly known as a Blue-Sided Leaf Frog, is seen at National Biodiversity Institute of Costa Rica. Alexander Barrientos, a scientist at the institute, said that the endangered tree frog of the Hylidae family native to Costa Rica was able to reproduce in captivity, and that they were investigating the possibility of breeding other species of frogs in danger of extinction. (Caption by the Chicago Tribune)
