Experts warn of environmental dangers due to TikTok\u2019s viral \u2018frog army\u2019 TikTok: thinfrogExperts have warned that the viral \u2018frog army\u2019 on TikTok and other similar trends could have dangerous consequences for the environment if real, potentially driving certain populations closer to extinction. In February 2022, TikTok user thinfrog started documenting the process of creating a so-called \u2018frog army,\u2019 collecting frogspawn from puddles that appeared to be drying up. In June, thinfrog claimed that the frog army had finally hatched, explaining: \u201c95 days ago I rescued 1.4 million frog eggs and put them in my pond for a frog army and now they [are] leaving the pond. And now a million little frogs [are] hopping around the garden. I don\u2019t think I can walk on the grass anymore. This is the biggest frog army ever but I kind of regret this now no one can go in the garden.\u201d Videos of swarms of frogs garnered millions of views, however, some users have argued that thinfrog is actually faking the frog army with footage taken from YouTube. Regardless, some are worried that the virality of this particular creator could prompt others to copy the idea. Click here if TikTok doesn\u2019t load Experts are warning of the dangerous impact of trends like the \u2018frog army,\u2019 predicting negative consequences for the environment if they continue. Speaking to the Guardian, Tierra Curry, a conservation biologist at the Center for Biological Diversity, said: \u201cIt makes me cringe. Instead of helping, [These TikTok users] are actually hurting the animals they\u2019re releasing and all the animals in the environment that they\u2019re releasing them into \u2013 it\u2019s creating a vector for disease and invasive species.\u201d Click here if TikTok doesn\u2019t load Chris Nagano, who worked as an endangered species biologist at the US Fish and Wildlife Service for 27 years, went on to say: \u201cIt\u2019s the law of unintended consequences. I have no doubt this person may have thought he was doing a good thing, but he may actually be driving these populations to extinction.\u201d Marine biologist and researcher for BBC Wildlife Dawood Qureshi also told Metro in June: \u201cBreeding that many frogs is definitely not good for the environment. \u201cIt can cause an influx in frogs that wouldn\u2019t normally survive in this environment, and that can have adverse effects such as too many predators of various insect species being released without many natural limits, which then decreases numbers of insects and can in turn have a negative impact on important processes such as pollination \u2014 a process that ensures food plants are growing and thriving.\u201d Thinfrog has garnered over 20 million collective likes for his videos about the frog army, as well as 2 million followers, but many remain convinced that it\u2019s all fake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Experts warn of environmental dangers due to TikTok\u2019s viral \u2018frog army\u2019 TikTok: thinfrogExperts have warned that the viral \u2018frog army\u2019 on TikTok and other similar trends could have dangerous consequences for the environment if real, potentially driving certain populations closer to extinction. In February 2022, TikTok user thinfrog started documenting the process of creating a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}