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  • What's the Scientific name for this species?

  • WOOOH us humans destroying another species

    GOOD GAME!

  • Every specie is unique.

  • Frogs taste like chicken...

  • thats a frog prince.. why dont you kiss them?

  • 1"-1 and a half" in length.

    JUST LIKE MY HUGE DICK

  • FUCKING PESTICIDES

  • I wish I was a frog who lived under a waterfall.

  • :: LOL their so annoying :P

  • But...will it blend?

  • i would love doing this kind of job, but i'm not really cool with frogs. i prefer lions. :/

  • Approx. 3 species go extinct a day. :*( about 99% of that is human caused.

  • Wow, human intervention destroys another species, big surprise there...

  • @PostManUpsideDown I know that but you're make humans seem lso important in this situation when the situation shouldn't exist. A small group of people did a great thing to cover a large group's mistake.

  • I want to eat it.

  • @greycolumbus hmm for some reason ..i do too

  • @greycolumbus eat yourself

  • ah, too live your life in a shower all day long!!!!

    great job!!

    save them just in time!!!

  • I love these things, they are so interesting to know. Who knew there was a frog that gave live birth and didnt have a toadpole stage? Pretty interesting.

  • They need to be relocated to my dinner table.

  • i couldnt watch it all, thoses bitches are fuckin annoying.

  • @leightosis O___o

  • @leightosis I agree...

  • I dunno what do u say extinct in the wild, since i found some the same species of toad in my backyard in hong knog, 

  • They look delicious!

  • bring back all the real stolen knowledge.

  • they give live birth? dopeeee

  • Bring dinosaurs back or else ye're gay...

  • @Quirke9 Like you :)

  • @killerben007 Ya, definitely

  • This is interesting... I want to do this kind of work when i finish high school.

  • @Vivaswaq That is just what i said when i saw this video! I've always been interested in science. It would be great if really could do things like this for a living.

  • @Vivaswaq go for it! =) It is really awsome that you already know what you want to do in the future.

  • @Vivaswaq Go for it! You'll help the environtment a great deal!

  • @Vivaswaq I would be grateful if you would. Very grateful.

  • @Vivaswaq i think u shuld . i wuld

  • A random conversation between my uncle and dad.

    Uncle: I heard in Arkansas, they are trying to bring back the elk.

    Dad: What, are they going to bring back the dinosaurs, too?!

    Lmao

  • SELL SOME ON THE PET MARKET! They will never come close to extinction again!

  • Human expansion is taking its toll on alot of animals in the wild.Where I live is suppose to be a suburb but a black bear was just captured last week and taken way out,about 80 miles and let loose.I have a feeling it will be back or where they are one,they are more.

  • Raifukumaru: you are so awesome!! I never thought of that before, man!

    Like, there could be other planets out there that went through the SAME thing earth did and people JUST like us could have been alive then. Probably following the same philosophy as us. Because that's how nature rolls!

  • @juliantheunicorn Exactly. We once had an empire that spanned thousands of words, unrivaled technology and medicine, the greatest thinking minds that were the epitome of knowledge and understanding yet something occurred that forced to us to cut off all ties with one another. Once thriving planets fell into dismay.

    and slowly we devolved into primate scavengers. Earth was just a brand new planet we wanted to colonize at the time, but it became home for a few stragglers

  • This has nothing to o with the video, but I've found that those who watch NG are pretty intelligent people with open minds. I have this theory that mankind are a lot older than we think. Sure fossils point to modern man first appearing around 100 to 150,000 years ago, but that is only on Earth. What if we had millenia worth of history, space travel, wars and territories spanning light years. Earth is merely the remains of something so much greater that was lost thousands of years ago

  • Lets see your churches mission trip do this shit. Fucking hidden agendas all round!

  • what a voice... poor husband, imagine that moaning and groaning in the dark

  • Human expansion & exploits of resources out of greed & carelessness is having no middle ground of protecting & preserving nature & the animal kingdoms is an invasion & destructive nature of mankind...

    At least there is a certain % of people globally that do care and want to be proactive and educate those that are oblivious & ignorant...however; the private sector is almost hopeless to convince otherwise!?!...

  • @KalanYore umad?

  • @luiscamara1

    We have a responsibility; that is apart of humanity's role...there is balance and care that needs to be maintained for the entire planet.

    Or don't you get it ?!?

  • @KalanYore nah im gonna be dead long before earth starts to get really fucked up, therefore i don't care

    sorry.

  • @luiscamara1

    So are u sayng u have stage 4 cancer? or u going to exit your own way of suicide?....besides the changes are happening now and the end is not somekind of global disaster; it is a whole new paradigm shift of what the world is unaware of a new humanity of consciousness awaits of the truth about our origin and that we never been alone...the few 100's of millions are aware while the mass population is in the dark of denial or in fear of 2012 really is?

  • @KalanYore nah

  • @luiscamara1

    Just wait abit longer - you'll see...and once you do it is like the weight of the world coming off your shoulders - people w/ questioned why for so long for waiting for the truth? and a brave new world?

    I am very seriously rational about these events over time that is increasingly being observed all over the world.

    I am not doing my best to convince you at all - you have to be the one to see?

  • @KalanYore ok

  • some countries make some constructions and damage local ecology before to make serious field investigation .

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  • @EwokVengeance Cursing the humans. So what are you then? other then a virgin

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  • can they predict the weather ? No ? fuck em ...

  • They are so cute!!

  • They look like frogs to me. 

  • I just find it so interesting, and sort of sad, at how dependent this species became on it's surroundings in such a limited area. Kind of makes you think of us when it comes to the planet. Our planet occupies such a small spot in the universe, that comparatively, we're just like this frog.

    Of course the major difference is the frog isn't stupid enough to destroy it's only area to live, while humans seem to be rushing to do this.

  • @chronDiggity Very interesting analogy. It's easy to forget how small this planet really is. Your comparison about humans and frogs relative to a limited environment is enlightening. We're very similar. We're like fish in a floating cosmic fishtank (the atmosphere being our water) and the only difference is we just learned how to crack the glass.

  • Rush Limbaugh would watch this video then immediately tell you only God can control such things.

  • They R so cute those frogs :D

  • I hate Humans...

  • @Mosheh1am Get off our planet!

  • @Mosheh1am I do too

  • NO they went extinct because they became to dependant on a special eviroment. Man didn't do that.

  • @llathrum No, but man DID do the tampering that made it impossible for these animals to thrive in their habitat anymore. This would not have happened had the humans involved been more considerate of the other creatures with whom they share their land. No offense, but to blame the animals for this because of what they've naturally adapted to is ignorant and a bit weak.

  • @RavenJanette Humans did not guide this frogs evolution. Humans did not encode its DNA to not have a protective skin. Humans did not make the frogs life impossible to live outside of a shower of constant water spray. Humans did not make the frogs life very short if it tries to move to another water fall or live outside the water fall for a few hours while it travels. Humans like you who are to dumb to see that creatures go extinct all the time because they have met the evolutionary dead end.

  • @RavenJanette Furthermore, I for one am DAM glad the dinosaurs met their evolutionary dead end, now if we can get the rest of the Eco-freaks to join them. While you out saving dead end species, why don't you go save malaria, measles, scarlet fever, typhoid, and a host of other things we are working on killing off.

  • LOL! I go to Syracuse University, which is on the same campus as this university. I'm gonna go see the frogs!!!!

  • time comes when only cow and chickens are the only one thats not extinct

  • I hope the solution is to remove the damn instead of relocating them~ it might cause more complication to the eco-system! :(

  • @CaptainFelixTan1: That's easy for you to say. Go to Tanzania and see whether the locals who are using the power/water from the dam agree with you.

  • @puncheex you have a point, i hope for the best for both the locals and the frogs... cheers!

  • hmm the title is a lie!!!!!!

    i was expecting the species to be completely dead since it does say EXTINCT!!

    doesn't that mean completely obliterated?

    the video clearly says 500 were relocated meaning they weren't extinct. no matter how it's put

  • @ichirootaniguchi they said "BEFORE the population of toads were declined, 500 were relocated"

  • @ichirootaniguchi You expected a species which "Thrives in Lab" to be completely dead? Curious.

    Btw, it says ""Extinct"", not "Extinct". ;-)

  • @ichirootaniguchi extinct is in quotations. quotations can trick people like that. 

  • @ichirootaniguchi Extinct in the wild is a term that means that there are no more of that species IN THE WILD. It also means that either before or during the drop of population of said species scientists or a zoo may have come across them and taken from a few to a few hundred and put them in captivity. And when the remaining of that species is dead in the wild, but alive in captivity, they are classified as "extinct in the wild" and thus technically "extinct" hope it helped =)

  • Oh Jesus/YHWH, please save those poor little frogs. Amen.

  • No toad life stage? Interesting.

  • @Blueknightex tadpole stage..

  • now i question the difference between frogs and toads

  • ROFL, it's cute and all but what's the point of natural selection if a species that sucks so much ass at surviving that they can't spread beyond a single waterfall is given life-support instead of letting it die off as all other shitty species do?

  • @Truthiness231 What humans are doing goes beyond "natural selection". There is something different between animals working to live and humans just fucking everything up for sport.

  • @goodyfun Humans probably fucked up the Neanderthals in Europe, the Erectus in Asia and the megafauna along the way. But isn't it human nature to fuck up things in order to survive? At least that was the case when there was no electricity.

  • @Truthiness231 In case you still don't get it, that means humans are hurting their own species by destroying the world around them. You know... the one and only world they LIVE IN.

  • @goodyfun Er, how is this one species holding up the biosphere?

    Quite a few species die off every single day (yeah, probably some because they simply weren't fast/smart/strong enough to avoid death via human), and quite a few species are born every day (again, due to human intervention). Species are always going to be coming and going; it's the bulk of life's story.

    The point is weaker ones die off and stronger ones come into the picture, which led to all the hardy species we have today.

  • @Truthiness231 Bringing attention to species that humans can be sympathetic with that are dying off due to the human species is a gateway for: Possible donations to saving the species that this world needs that are not thought of as "cute". People to take steps towards living sustainably.

  • one day, we'll see a dinosaur coming out from a cave of a mining project.

  • This is a good reminder of what happens when exotic forests are cut and down, and waters are polluted. Thousands of species of animals that live in small locations such as these very frogs are wiped out in a very short period of time. That is just one of the countless reasons why anti sustainable human behavior must cease.

  • Also: Most of these species I mention can not, and will never return. This is one of the rare cases when good people caught it happening before it was too late.

  • now lets make dinosaurs come back to life

  • @koongienoob Yeah Bring back Dinosaurs pleasee

  • @koongienoob Dinosaurs are not extinct. Birds are dinosaurs.

  • @Orion688 no, they are extinct. many scientists believe birds evolved from dinosaurs and many birds share similar physiology as some dinosaurs.

  • @koongienoob dinosaurs are alive today....

  • @KrakenKingKong

    Erm, no, they aren't.

  • @DecmanReturns ummm.. they are called birds!!!

  • @KrakenKingKong

    *Some* theropod dinosaurs evolved into birds. However, they are exactly that: birds. You wouldn't call a crow a dinosaur in the same way you wouldn't call a fellow human a Permian shrew.

  • @DecmanReturns well birds are more closely linked to dino's (time-wise) than we are shrew ( small-mammal) ... and yes a crow is a evolved dino too but its not related to all dinos that existed.

  • @koongienoob Yay!!!! when they do I wanna play with the T-rex! Rawr! 

  • @koongienoob sorry, it doesn't exacly work that way...

  • Damn those humans! They think they own the planet!

  • Have all your videos in 1080p! :-)

  • Life finds a way.......

  • Who is paying them to look after stupid meaning less toads. If these things go extinct is it going to efect your life in any way no you probobly wouldent even know or give a shit

  • @KevinG5309 Not trying to start anything here or insult you, but by your own logic if you died would it effect anyones life in any way and would they give a shit? Your family and friends might feel sad but otherwise would your life ending directly hurt anyone? Despite feeling sad everyone you know would move on and although they might never entirely forget you the memories would fade with time. That doesn't mean you weren't important. But I think these frogs were doomed anyway.

  • live birth? so are they still considered amphibians?

  • @cinormak

    Of course they are. Taxonomy is a matter of genetic classification, not biological factors like birthing process. There are plenty of reptiles and amphibians that give live birth. Just like there are mammals that lay eggs (platypus and echidna)

  • @cinormak: Yes, of course.

  • Tiny Toad from Tanzania Thrives in Tank Thanks to These Tricksters! =D

  • Science. Again. Again and again.

  • I WANT ONEEEEEE

  • it't toilet time for tiny toad.

  • Someone tell me why i read this as "excited toad thrives in lab" >.>

  • Sometimes human behavior amazes me. They build a dam that might last a hundred and twenty years or so but they wipe something out forever to do it. Anyone else see the problem here?

  • @Panthiest: you and KevinG5309 (above) need to meet in a padded room somewhere.

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  • Thrive little toads so you may one day grow up and be licked across your back by bored teenagers.

  • poor thing...

  • @postmanupsidedown that's like saying it's awlright to kill your whole race and then revive y'all, living in test tubes?

    absofckinbrilliant.

  • I wish that the other extinct lil' buddies were not extinct, like the Tazmanian Wolf!

  • humans stop fuckin with nature!!

  • Science and Education FTW.

  • @F1R9A9G2Z wat does ftw mean?

  • @REPINTDOT for the win

  • @pinzgauernorcal thank u

  • @REPINTDOT For The Win!

  • I fucking hate the new old spice guy...

  • Humans kill everything they touch (as a species... not groups or individuals). We are a plague and need to be semi-eradicated.

  • @OukaKisa it was once said.. the earth is a garden and we are the pests. time to call in the exterminator!!

  • @OukaKisa you go first...

  • @JoshMcRay I would rather be last to make sure that the world is perfect and the world is as close to perfect as it can get. We already know the world is overpopulated and the more of us who die, the better. The people who cling to life for no other reason than they don't want to die are the ones that should die first. (just as a note so I can't be arrested: I will never murder)

  • @OukaKisa sorry for the accidental repeat phrase

  • @OukaKisa lol such a hypocrite... You say humans need to be eradicated, but won't take yourself out. I want you to go up to people and tell them you think they should die and see how hard your ass is kicked. Do your cause a favor and go kill yourself. Also the world isn't over populated.

  • @JoshMcRay It's not hypocrisy if I want to be the last one to die AND the fact that I said SEMI-eradicated. There is a difference. There are individuals who deserve to die (anybody who does something evil) and I never have any problem saying it when the time comes but I don't just say it randomly. If I wanted to advance my cause I would murder, not commit suicide. Also it is a mutually agreed upon fact that the world is overpopulated.

  • @OukaKisa How did you escape the hospital?

  • @willchrisbow I'm not insane (in this case)... just a misanthrope who wants the world to be a utopia.

  • @OukaKisa: Have you ever studied nature? Are you aware that in your utopia almost all the individuals in it die from being eaten or killed by disease (the same thing, just smaller predators)? Dying of old age is not an option.Only humans have been able to break the mold, and in addition take some of the animals with them. Not that that means much in the ultimate scheme of things...

  • @puncheex A utopia is the best of all possible worlds. It doesn't mean that things won't die (because hindering death from either killing-for-food or from disease is detrimental to the planet). "Old age" is part of the problem with the population. We're so focused on living in the here and now we can't see we're destroying the planet's future.

  • Gah, amazing

  • Has the smallest range in the world, making them one of the worst poker players ever.

  • They may have gone extinct in the wild because of human impact, but they are thriving in a lab because of human impact.

  • @PostManUpsideDown We are a double edged sword aren't we?

  • @PostManUpsideDown That just goes to show what humans care.

  • @PostManUpsideDown more is gone then saved

  • @PostManUpsideDown

    Thats such an optomistic comment :) it sounds exactly like something a wisend old biologist might say

    that comment just made my summer

  • @PostManUpsideDown Which wouldn't happen if Human impact didn't happen in the first place

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  • @PostManUpsideDown Depends how you look at it... Humans sometimes don't require messing with nature to survive but we still do it :(.

  • @PostManUpsideDown they may thrive in the wild... but what if they thrive too much? they werre perfect under the waterfall, the perfect solution would be that they had never built that dam. But i think it would be better to let them go extinct then to put them in a foreing enviroment and unbalance the enviroment...

  • @deckadad1

    That is a very good point about the foreign environment situation. Such a shame that these toads had such a small and fragile location for them to had lived in.

  • @PostManUpsideDown so many species go extinct every year, some of them we havent even discovered yet, what a shame...

  • @deckadad1 They can live ONLY under/near waterfalls lol, That's it, they WILL die if they move anywhere else. I seriously doubt they'll cause too much trouble. Also, i'm pretty sure they didn't mean ALL around the world.

  • @willchrisbow why can they only live near waterfalls? just because they originaly came from those waterfalls doesnt mean they cant adapt to another enviroment, just look, therre are not waterfalls in the lab and they are thriving! Also, a small unbalance in an enviroment can have a chain reaction and mix up all of the chain.(8th grade science). lets say therre are other frogs in the region wherre they are going to move into... they will have another competitor for food and you know the rest.

  • @deckadad1 No, in the lab they HAD to keep spraying mist on them. Did you even watch the video?????????? I'm sure they will check the environment before they release any. They do this all the time with different endangered species too and it turns out fine. There's plenty of bugs in the world to supply frogs,spiders,rodents,birds etc etc.

    So not to worry little one~

  • @willchrisbow loool, of course they had to keep spraying mist on them, they are amphibian! they need the water... I am not sure but i think the frogs didnt leave the waterfalls because of terrain reasons. and even if they check the terrain they can never be 100% sure that the species will be non invasive. also, i dont think you understand how a food chain works.....

  • @deckadad1 They need 22hrs of mist......What other environment besides waterfalls spray 22hrs of mist a day? These are very delicate species and require a almost PERFECT setup. Why do you think they are ONLY found in that ONE waterfall. It's wasn't because of terrain issues idiot, watch the video again and learn something lol~

  • @PostManUpsideDown More like they are thriving in a lab in spite of human impact

  • @PostManUpsideDown thats not something to be content about, its sad.

  • @PostManUpsideDown You could say we are demi Gods, as we can choose what lives to an extent.

  • @PostManUpsideDown but all of their families are already dead. thats like saying i can kill your whole family except for you.. but since i didnt kill you I'm a hero. it doesn't work like that.