{"id":6271,"date":"2022-07-10T07:36:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T05:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/10\/tiktok-frog-army-stunt-could-have-grave-consequences-experts-warn\/"},"modified":"2022-07-10T07:36:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T05:36:40","slug":"tiktok-frog-army-stunt-could-have-grave-consequences-experts-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/10\/tiktok-frog-army-stunt-could-have-grave-consequences-experts-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok \u2018frog army\u2019 stunt could have grave consequences, experts warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists alarmed at claims of releasing 10m frogs and 100m ladybugs to rack up viewers as relocating species can have \u2018extremely negative consequences\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A TikTok \u201cfrog army\u201d has racked up millions of likes \u2013 but the potential consequences of the bizarre stunt are no joke, experts say.<\/p>\n<p>In February of this year, a young TikTok user who claims to be based in the UK started building out a \u201cfrog army\u201d after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@thinfrog\/video\/7067601278276291846?is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1\">noticing<\/a> \u201csome type of eggs in a shallow pond near his home\u201d. In recent videos, he claimed to have gathered more than 1.4m eggs that have hatched into tadpoles in a backyard pool he built. \u201cI wanted to create the largest frog army in history,\u201d he said in one video. \u201cNext year I will create a giant pond for 10 million frogs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jul\/10\/tiktok-frog-army-stunt\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/62bf5db86cac248f8df99bfecbcdcac01649c8a9\/0_19_2335_1402\/master\/2335.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2ad3ff8261965945a335256dd4b6a9dc\" title=\"TikTok \u2018frog army\u2019 stunt could have grave consequences, experts warn\" \/>Scientists alarmed at claims of releasing 10m frogs and 100m ladybugs to rack up viewers as relocating species can have \u2018extremely negative consequences\u2019<br \/>\nA TikTok \u201cfrog army\u201d has racked up millions of likes \u2013 but the potential consequences of the bizarre stunt are no joke, experts say.<br \/>\nIn February of this year, a young TikTok user who claims to be based in the UK started building out a \u201cfrog army\u201d after noticing \u201csome type of eggs in a shallow pond near his home\u201d. In recent videos, he claimed to have gathered more than 1.4m eggs that have hatched into tadpoles in a backyard pool he built. \u201cI wanted to create the largest frog army in history,\u201d he said in one video. \u201cNext year I will create a giant pond for 10 million frogs.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists alarmed at claims of releasing 10m frogs and 100m ladybugs to rack up viewers as relocating species can have \u2018extremely negative consequences\u2019 A TikTok \u201cfrog army\u201d has racked up millions of likes \u2013 but the potential consequences of the bizarre stunt are no joke, experts say. In February of this year, a young TikTok &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/10\/tiktok-frog-army-stunt-could-have-grave-consequences-experts-warn\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TikTok \u2018frog army\u2019 stunt could have grave consequences, experts warn<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}