they are now classified as exticket in the wild.h the story of the golden frog and the wonderful story of the -- what's called the frog hotel, and in some ways, you can say this is a heartening story, and it shows that people really are concerned about other species, to use the phrase of the problem with sharing our earth with other creatures. throughout the book, i spent a lot of time of people who devoted their entire lives to this problem. a lot of them, scientists, you know, like barbara durrant who i mentioned, but a lot are ordinary people, for instance, when i went down to the conservation center, there were a lot of volunteers from the state who were down there to help, and when they a took the frogs out of the rain forest and put them in the hotel, they needed people to collect food for them to go out literally into the field and collect bugs for them, and people from all over the world volunteered. they got themselves over to panama, and they volunteered their time and basically their resources. even people who, you know,