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Amphibians w/ Matthew J. Gray

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The African Claud Frog

There's a the african claud frog. It's in the genus xenapusa. These really ancient, kind of prehistoric frogs. They're totally aquatic. And so that species was originally used as one of the first ways that we found you could tesk for a birth,. whether or not somebody was pregnant. A woman 's pregnant so yo o a harmone that women produce when they are pregnant. We can basely tke its in their urine. You could take the urine, you could expose these frogs, female frogs, to it, and they would begin to ovulate. Or d dyouno. I'm sure there's a bunch of things, but if

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