Very bad... Chytrid has nearly wiped out a species of (forgive me if I'm wrong about the species) yellow legged frogs in the not too distant mountains (San Jacinto, Santa Rosa). I'm not sure if these xenopus were dumped in the pool of water I found them in or if they have traveled from upstream. The pool was connected to a stream that runs through a flood control that I believe eventually runs into the Santa Ana river. When we had the floods last year, or early this year (can't remember when exactly), it washed everything away... Good news; no more xenopus in the flood control ditch... Bad news; they are all probably in some huge pond off the Santa Ana river somewhere.

I wonder how they ended up there in the first place... The hospital I work for is only a few miles from the stream... It is a teaching/research hospital... I wonder if they could be descendants of frogs that might have been used for pregnancy tests early last century.