Tracking the Vanishing Frogs

Tracking the Vanishing Frogs: An Ecological Mystery by Kathryn Phillips is the compilation of Kathryn Phillip’s journeys and stories told to her by those who she observed. The book chronicles the fieldwork, lab work, and amphibian research of several dozen scientists. However, I feel that the book mainly focuses on five scientists. Those five scientists are Mark Jennings, a native Californian, who’s main work focuses on the California red-legged frog and other native …

…to other life forms on the earth, including humans. If all the causes of the amphibians deaths cannot be found, it is very likely that the causes could increase and worsen, possibly destroying many other classes of life forms. So in the future, maybe we should pay more attention to the animals that are less intelligent, and less able to defend themselves, for fear that in the future, we ourselves could cause our own demise.