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Old 06-06-2006, 01:34 AM
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In a race to save amphibians threatened by an encroaching, lethal fungus, two conservationists from Atlanta recently packed their carry-ons with frogs rescued from a Central American rain forest — squeezing some 150 to a suitcase — and requested permission from airlines to travel with them in the cabin of the plane.
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Our bud Ron Gagliardo in the news. Someone at work brought me a copy of it today.

I've been "airlifting" frogs for ages!

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They did a piece about it on the Colbert Report " There Are Frogs On The Plane!!" Smauel L. Jackson- "I'm tired of these m&% %*#(#) FROGS!" Seriously it's a bad situation.
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