Researchers at the University of South Florida recently found that the fungicide chlorothalonil, in the same family as DDT, killed almost 90% of the frogs exposed to it. They tested several species of frogs, and all had the same reaction. They are now testing the chemical's mortality rate for other organisms, including bees.
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title is misleading. the frogs arent commiting suicide, they are being murdered.
-icide doesn't only refer to self-murder. (homicide is a synonym for murder)
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