A World Without Kermie. The froggie in the picture is a golden frog from Panama. The species is virtually extinct. When I was a child my parents took me to a resaurant called the Golden Frog. The owners brought the frogs down from the rain forests and placed them in a waterfall display in the dining area. My mom told me that the frogs died when taken outside their habitat. I cried a lot and we never went there again. A frog as commonplace as Florida's bufo toad was also wiped out. One Halloween, some boy threw one of them down my shirt and then slapped me so hard that he splatted the frog all over my body and shirt. Yuck. But tonight I am really depressed over the frogs. They think it's a fungus. It doesn't help that I have the flu.  ¶ 11:19 PM