The Panamanian golden frogs died first. Extinct but for a
few stray specimens stored with hermetic zeal in zoo laboratories. Scientists
fretted, as did some intrepid reporters from National Geographic, Smithsonian,
and the New Yorker. The Panamanians were devastated. They considered the golden
frog their national emblem and put its likeness on their key chains and coffee
mugs. No one else cared. After all, the golden frogs were frogs, not puppies,
and other things were golden: daffodils, tomato blossoms, the sun, Big Bird. …
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