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Aside from whether it's our fault they're dying, there's a good reason to save them: several of the extremely venomous frogs that live in these areas have very interesting medicinal possibilities. One, for example, doesn't even make its own venom--it eats ants, and collects their venom inside itself until it is of lethal concentrations. That ability to extract and concentrate ingested poison is one of the things they desperately want to study, but you can't exactly decide to dissect one when there are only a handful left.
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