I remember 35years ago, when I was a little kid and we used to see the whole fields just lit up with fire flies. A kid today would have no conception of it, really. The closest thing to compare would be a giant light show with LEDs attached to a flying drone swarm. Except it was nature. How much more beautiful must it have been in the 1800's? What else are we going to lose and have only stories for our kids? Oh man. That just bummed me out.
Even 10-15 years ago I’d see them all over as a kid. Nowadays, the only thing lighting up the night is all the artificial lights. No fireflies, barely visible stars...
@@zakiducky I remember them from 10-15 years ago and you're right, at least 10-15 years ago there were some left, pretty much none at all now. Just imagine 30 years ago. there were legit like swarms of them. in such a short time... i am sad about it. and kinda mad, but who do i blame? how can we fix this? I really don't know if we can. Maybe we could bring them back with science? Or would them lead to worse problems?
@@Inertia888 I honestly don’t know. Hopefully we as a species can find ways to heal the damage, but when even rural areas are losing so much biodiversity, it’s hard to stop the bleeding.
In a perhaps equally wet southern part of the U.S., in the warm & hot months it rains more and the chorus of frogs/toads resounds in the air. I've been calling the event a "Frog Party" for years, because typically they're mating when they're that loud. 😅
I discovered one of the first cases of chytrid fungus in KY a few years ago. A forest ranger and I had it sent off for laboratory analysis where it was positively confirmed. It was infecting american toads, mainly affecting their glands on the backs of their heads. Causing them to kind of "melt" off, leaving a huge wound. It started out as just 1 specimen. Then we found more and more over the course of their breeding season (when they are most likely to be found in water) until an entire population was infected. I have since left herpetology (the study of reptiles and amphibians) and have taken up chemsitry, but I still think about this every day.
I know they're helping the frogs by capturing their baby's, raising them under optimal conditions, doing tests on them and probing them before they set them free. But can you imagine giant aliens doing that to us?
I think it's preferable to do that to a few, than let a whole species go extinct. Unless you're on the side of the kids at the end of the movie, 'Cabin in the Woods'.😫
I read the frogs end up dying because their skin gets thickened due the fungal infection. It results in an inability to absorb essential minerals, like salt, through their skin. (Frogs don’t drink) Mankind should study the osmosis process in frogs for new desalination methods.
I found it selfish that people ask what an animal or plant does for them when asked to help save a species, as if a living thing's right to live is tied to how it benefits us. Life existed before we were around, it'll probably continue to do so when we are gone. We are not the center of the universe, everything has just as much a right to live as we do.
From where this fungus Come from and why it was spreading worldwidly so rapidly is unclear. It's probably due to the increase of human activities (labs/pets/tourism/agriculture/..)
Frogs are babies I love them and I always will. Especially tree frogs; they are so smart ! Mine has actually slept with me in bed because I fell asleep and I freaked out and he was still with me in the covers about 5 hours later snuggled up like a damn cat! He knows when I’m around, he sleeps in my hand and cuddled up in my shirt … they are smarter than you think.
It's know that the fungus is spread by Korea's Oriental fire-bellied toad. You might not know, all Korea fogs/toads have immune to this fungus, because here leave that Oriental fire-bellied toad. It's pandemic but not all fogs will not extinction. Some will get immune and survive.
The word pesticide doesn't specifically have to be mentioned. Watch the video again and listen for "indicator species". They're taking about water quality... since frogs like water.
Ok I understand that in this case the water is bad for the frogs But why is it (in most other cases) that animals and insects can ingest water that would cripple us humans , why does our drinking water need to be so clean compared to what other life can put up with ?
Not fault of your own but humans have this arrogance that we are somehow gods on this planet and we have no connection to the planet not realizing our very survival is deeply connected to earth.
What fungus, bacteria or virus lying dormant in melting ice will be unleashed that will affect mankind? We depend greatly upon such aquatic and land animals for food, but if they're all gone, it will be a race against time.
Cane toads _are_ already infected with Bd in Australia, but they're less susceptible because they prefer warm habitats. Bd tends to be more lethal among colder-climate species.
How is their skin permiable to fungus spores and oxygen, a molecule of oxygen is way smaller then a spore of a fungus right? So their skin as a big range of permiabilaity?
Bd zoospores are motile (they can move). They don't infect the insides of the amphibians. They infect the _skin_ of amphibians. They eat by literally dissolving the cells of the epithelium (the outer layer of the skin), forming pimple-like cysts on the surface.
By inoculating them, you are allowing them to spread genes that would otherwise be weak to the infection. Rather than allowing a concentration of genes that are more resistant, you have created a population that will forever require human intervention in order to sustain itself.
I wouldent tamper the dna, nor touching its best when you know how on porpous some people do harm. And helping technologie will help. Vets are good . I am aware of the magic at work. Maby not enuf people know what frog can do.
Let's hope that human intervention works. Why, oh why, do U.S. women insist on talking like this 1:07? This one is especially ironic, as she is talking about frogs. She must have picked up their accents by working too close to them. Vocal fry as it is called is completely deliberate and done on p purpose. Words fail me as to why.
Sure, sure, the frog fungus..... But I'd like to know, *why do you have a TRANSEXUAL FLAG as your avatar??* Why did you just change it?? I'm simply a "Seeker" of knowledge.
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I have things to do but I shall know about the Frog-Killing Fungus
You made me laugh
I have 6 assignments due 🥲
Good one
Ha ha yes I also , should be sleeping but .....
why be forced and live in a society that values doing other things instead of thinking and observing so many wondrous things of nature
I remember 35years ago, when I was a little kid and we used to see the whole fields just lit up with fire flies. A kid today would have no conception of it, really. The closest thing to compare would be a giant light show with LEDs attached to a flying drone swarm. Except it was nature. How much more beautiful must it have been in the 1800's? What else are we going to lose and have only stories for our kids? Oh man. That just bummed me out.
Even 10-15 years ago I’d see them all over as a kid. Nowadays, the only thing lighting up the night is all the artificial lights. No fireflies, barely visible stars...
@@zakiducky I remember them from 10-15 years ago and you're right, at least 10-15 years ago there were some left, pretty much none at all now. Just imagine 30 years ago. there were legit like swarms of them. in such a short time... i am sad about it. and kinda mad, but who do i blame? how can we fix this? I really don't know if we can. Maybe we could bring them back with science? Or would them lead to worse problems?
@@Inertia888 I honestly don’t know. Hopefully we as a species can find ways to heal the damage, but when even rural areas are losing so much biodiversity, it’s hard to stop the bleeding.
@@Inertia888 It's a shame that people from your generation and older are playing a big hand in it too.
Nature? What is that?
I got frogs 🐸 in the garden here in the U.K. I built a small pond for them, they love it, it fills me with joy when I see them. 🐸😍
In a perhaps equally wet southern part of the U.S., in the warm & hot months it rains more and the chorus of frogs/toads resounds in the air. I've been calling the event a "Frog Party" for years, because typically they're mating when they're that loud. 😅
I discovered one of the first cases of chytrid fungus in KY a few years ago. A forest ranger and I had it sent off for laboratory analysis where it was positively confirmed. It was infecting american toads, mainly affecting their glands on the backs of their heads. Causing them to kind of "melt" off, leaving a huge wound. It started out as just 1 specimen. Then we found more and more over the course of their breeding season (when they are most likely to be found in water) until an entire population was infected. I have since left herpetology (the study of reptiles and amphibians) and have taken up chemsitry, but I still think about this every day.
That frog just said, there's a fungus amongus.
I’m so appreciative for the people out there supporting our world
This looks like a The Last of Us scenario to me
The Last of Frogs
@@vezeveer lol
May kek save us all
Reee
Frogs can also tell you how deep the water is. Have you ever heard; Knee-Deep, Knee-Deep?
Absoluty Nobody :
Scientiest: ''let's make a cyborg-frog''
YES
Cyberfrog?
Lol frog cyborg love em
Cyberfrog, the next Avenger's member.
I know they're helping the frogs by capturing their baby's, raising them under optimal conditions, doing tests on them and probing them before they set them free.
But can you imagine giant aliens doing that to us?
Quite frankly if there were giant aliens, we'd have no choice but to submit.
We'll make great pets!
I think it's preferable to do that to a few, than let a whole species go extinct. Unless you're on the side of the kids at the end of the movie, 'Cabin in the Woods'.😫
I remember hearing about this fungus years ago.
Could wipe out?
We have already wiped out so many species...infact everyday
we are close to wiping ourselves out with this fake corona xD
No wonder why I haven't seen a frog in my life. All I've seen are toads
I have never seen a frog before ,
and I am an adult.
Shutup !
I read the frogs end up dying because their skin gets thickened due the fungal infection. It results in an inability to absorb essential minerals, like salt, through their skin. (Frogs don’t drink)
Mankind should study the osmosis process in frogs for new desalination methods.
Why cant nature have a fungus that kills mosquitoes and cockroaches ?
@Pixie Sprite damn it
I found it selfish that people ask what an animal or plant does for them when asked to help save a species, as if a living thing's right to live is tied to how it benefits us. Life existed before we were around, it'll probably continue to do so when we are gone. We are not the center of the universe, everything has just as much a right to live as we do.
A single spore can destroy a species.
So this is basically active immunization for frogs? Would a vaccine be possible as well?
Australia 🇦🇺 NO: I already know what your thinking... don’t do it...
My frog brethren must rise up against this fungal threat!
To arms!
I recommend a book for those interested in more information regarding the chytrid fungus: Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction.
Whenever I wonder why I'm majoring in Bio, videos like this remind me.
From where this fungus Come from and why it was spreading worldwidly so rapidly is unclear.
It's probably due to the increase of human activities (labs/pets/tourism/agriculture/..)
Or maybe chemicals have reduced and stressed it's immune system out!!
Frogs are babies I love them and I always will. Especially tree frogs; they are so smart ! Mine has actually slept with me in bed because I fell asleep and I freaked out and he was still with me in the covers about 5 hours later snuggled up like a damn cat! He knows when I’m around, he sleeps in my hand and cuddled up in my shirt … they are smarter than you think.
Need some of these fungus to rid the cane toads here in Australia
Afrogalypse
Afrogeddon
100 species dead?! WTF
I was just watching this video thinking that a frog would just jump on me
NOT THE FROGS!!
*Fungus exist*
Its turning the frogs gay!
Natural selection, earth says it's time. For all of us.
Exactly
The great cleaner
It's not natural. Bd is an introduced pathogen, probably due to importation of African clawed frogs in the pet industry.
Yes. Especially for humans.
I mean frogs are pretty wonk so I'm surprised they're not already extinct
They need to keep their distance!
Can you do a video about the supertetrahedral aluminum metal that scientists has made?
They need this in Australia!!!
It's know that the fungus is spread by Korea's Oriental fire-bellied toad.
You might not know, all Korea fogs/toads have immune to this fungus, because here leave that Oriental fire-bellied toad.
It's pandemic but not all fogs will not extinction. Some will get immune and survive.
Save them to save us ❤️❤️❤️
Could this frog-killing fungus also attack cane toads in Australia?
It is already in australia but i dosent affect cane toad ithink
So far haven't heard pesticide mentioned once. Chemicals in environment will impact immunity. Maybe see what chems they are finding in frogs?
These aren't happening only in agricultural areas. Some problems don't have a single simplistic cause.
Just had to throw climate change in there though.
@Fintan You think pesticides go UPriver and magically appear in areas far from human habitation?
@@Biglover29 Because it _is_ also affecting amphibian populations. Biology doesn't give a shit about your politics.
The word pesticide doesn't specifically have to be mentioned. Watch the video again and listen for "indicator species". They're taking about water quality... since frogs like water.
Evolution and extinction is a cycle
IT'S TURNING THE FREAKIN' FROGS DEAD!
Ok I understand that in this case the water is bad for the frogs But why is it (in most other cases) that animals and insects can ingest water that would cripple us humans , why does our drinking water need to be so clean compared to what other life can put up with ?
Depends on how much you like Cholera.
*TLOU flashbacks*
great video!
Nice video.
Poor stupid frogs. Look at them, they're absolutly clueless.
Me during VIVA :-
3:20 - 3:33
my pet frog Reggie isn't going to be happy about this!
at the end of the day it all comes down to chemistry
But at the end of the day chemistry comes down to physics.
@@dopplesoddner2899 damn I knew someone would mention that, biology
Hawaii could use this fungus
koki frog
Me: Who cares about those frogs
Scientist explains their importance and their dying species.
Me: Sad 😢
Edit- It was meant to be a joke
Lol
Another selfish dude. I only care, if I can get some profit from it.
Not fault of your own but humans have this arrogance that we are somehow gods on this planet and we have no connection to the planet not realizing our very survival is deeply connected to earth.
Aaaaaaarg! Stop putting stuff in the water that's turning the frickin frogs gay!!
Its 2020.
Earth wants then frogs gone
Mabey genetic engineering can help these frogs possibly
Perhaps, but probably too unlikely they will be allowed to release the frogs into the wild.
Or maybe just a vaccine.
Keep RANDY FROM SOUTH PARK AWAY FROM THAT DAMN FROG!
What fungus, bacteria or virus lying dormant in melting ice will be unleashed that will affect mankind? We depend greatly upon such aquatic and land animals for food, but if they're all gone, it will be a race against time.
Could we engineer this to take out the Cane Toad population in Australia?
Cane toads _are_ already infected with Bd in Australia, but they're less susceptible because they prefer warm habitats. Bd tends to be more lethal among colder-climate species.
It seems their team cannot say júmp tô àñöthēr species and more stuff so the logarithmic equation doesn't get wíld...
Logalgo's rythm
Could solve Australia’s problem
How is their skin permiable to fungus spores and oxygen, a molecule of oxygen is way smaller then a spore of a fungus right? So their skin as a big range of permiabilaity?
Bd zoospores are motile (they can move). They don't infect the insides of the amphibians. They infect the _skin_ of amphibians. They eat by literally dissolving the cells of the epithelium (the outer layer of the skin), forming pimple-like cysts on the surface.
@@AngryKittens thanks for answering, fungi really are some of the craziest beeings we got on earth
By inoculating them, you are allowing them to spread genes that would otherwise be weak to the infection. Rather than allowing a concentration of genes that are more resistant, you have created a population that will forever require human intervention in order to sustain itself.
This is just nature selection
Seems like you can use COVID-19 to take out the fungus
I heard the atrazine in the water is also turning the friggin' frogs GAY
The last of us in nutshell
Maybe that's what's meant to be
What about the human person in the womb who should care about them? Who are as well in threat.
Is the womb unattached from the mother? If so, that is a issue. Please post a link where I can see about this unattached womb.
Your valid
So it's like covid for frogs.
Not really the same.
TY 😃
Yay....uhh...Frogs(?) !!!
(Marvel has got to have a super hero in that somewhere...)
'Toad'?
can i get one of those tracking chips for my wife? lol jk
Amen!
Bet this is the new pandemia we'll face after corona
They are the hero's
Poor 🐸 Frogs world ending!!
This made the friggin frogs gay
I like so much nature, surelly Biden will help with renewable energy and susuantiability in a big way, i like so much that part of Biden.
Change that fkin dp
wow 2020 last of us infection u all :/ if it makes the species jump ... hopefully it will not :O
😕
I wouldent tamper the dna, nor touching its best when you know how on porpous some people do harm. And helping technologie will help. Vets are good . I am aware of the magic at work. Maby not enuf people know what frog can do.
So the froge do struggle like humans to stay in the wild.
Let's hope that human intervention works.
Why, oh why, do U.S. women insist on talking like this 1:07? This one is especially ironic, as she is talking about frogs. She must have picked up their accents by working too close to them.
Vocal fry as it is called is completely deliberate and done on p purpose. Words fail me as to why.
While I don't like it either, I found this video about it... mostly.
th-cam.com/video/s_LmC-ynqGM/w-d-xo.html
Kill the fungus
Omg no, the end of delicious frog legs is upon us!
allah
Sure, sure, the frog fungus..... But I'd like to know, *why do you have a TRANSEXUAL FLAG as your avatar??* Why did you just change it?? I'm simply a "Seeker" of knowledge.
I feel the whole story is fake.
A science channel with a transgender flag, irony, unsubscribed
What?
In what way is that ironic? Clownfish can change their biological sex.
close the door on your way out!
Your comment makes little to no sense. Please unsubscribe faster next time, unless you're here for some actual science talk.
@@FreedomAnderson but you cant