By Sabri Ben-Achour The National Zoo is carrying out a frog
rescue operation to save amphibians from a deadly fungus that's
spreading world wide. In a misty tank at the National Zoo, some
Panamanian Golden Frogs are wrestling. It's not something you'd
see in the wild anymore. "Well we're in the midst of a crisis
right now," says Brian Gratwick is the amphibian conservation
biologist at the National Zoo. "There's a fungus that's wiping
out a lot of the frogs around the world. We think about 90 of
122 species that have gone extinct since 1980 have gone extinct
because of this fungus," he says. Scientists think it was
introduced with imported frogs from Africa. So biologists around
the world are in rescue mode. National Zoo biologist Matt Evans
is one of them, he just got back from the most isolated cloud
forests of Panama to find frogs before the fungus does. Some are
being kept in giant shipping containers in Panama that have been
converted into quarantine facilities. Others are here, in the
basement, in a ste