|  On
the mainland across from Isla Loma Partida, the blue phase
of this species had a large section of its territory cut down.
Nothing could be found along the hillside but the dry remains
of the forest. Under the hot tropical sun, the trunks and
limbs of the fallen giants looked like bleached bones. The
ground was hard and dry and barren of any visible life except
for an occasional buzzing insect. What once supported a multitude
of species was being turned into a monocultural field devised
to support but a single species.
More than
twenty different morphs of the strawberry poison frog have
been found, more will probably be discovered, and some will
probably perish without our ever knowing they existed. Each
time we cut down a section of tropical rain forest, we trim
a little more off the evolutionary tree.
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Walk
a Tropical Stream at Night
