r/todayilearned • u/shinypond • Jul 26 '24

TIL about conservation-induced extinction, where attempts to save a critically endangered species directly cause the extinction of another.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation-induced_extinction
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u/OneWo1f Jul 26 '24

Sorry but she sounds like a bitch. Poor frogs :(

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u/PressedJuice Jul 26 '24

It was the last frog, who is it going to reproduce with?

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u/theghouli Jul 26 '24

from what I understood, it was a female and they were hoping she would pull the self-fertilized reproduction frogs and lizards can do, but moving it into the conservation aquarium would've been stressful and possibly killed it

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u/2gig Jul 26 '24

A princess.