Climate change itself is the single most dangerous threat to a vast majority of the animal kingdom by reducing biodiversity. When it comes to amphibians like the European tree frog, the Mediterranean tree frog and the Iberian painted frog, scientists have found that the climate changes actually have effected their dietary choices. Amphibians are a group that is highly sensitive to global warming due to the permeability of their skin and their complex lifecycle, which combines an aquatic stage as larvae and a terrestrial stage when young and as adults. Scientists conducted an experiment in which they placed the three different frog species in different climates to see how they would react. The most important result is that these larvae have very flexible dietary habits. All three species increased the percentage of vegetables consumed during heat waves.
This experiment shows that even though climate change has created endangerment and extinction, some species are able to adapt to climactic changes. They favor a vegetarian diet when exposed to warmer climates, and it is unknown how many other species share this trait. I believe it is important fpr us to be informed on these species' coping mechanisms to climate change. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161103115201.htm
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