posted on April 29, 2005 06:52:12 AM
Hundreds of toads have met a bizarre and sinister end in Germany in recent days, it was reported on Saturday: they exploded.
According to reports from animal-welfare workers and veterinarians, as many as a thousand of the amphibians have perished after their bodies swelled to bursting point and their entrails were propelled for up to a metre.
It is like "a science-fiction film", according to Werner Smolnik of a nature protection society in the northern city of Hamburg, where the phenomenon of the exploding toad has been observed.
"You see the animals crawling on the ground, swelling and then exploding."
He said the bodies of the toads expanded to three-and-a-half times their normal size.
"I have never seen such a thing," said veterinarian Otto Horst.
So bad has the death toll been that the lake in the Altona district of Hamburg has been dubbed "the pond of death".
Access to it has been sealed off, and every night a biologist visits it between 2am and 3am, which appears to be peak time for batrachians to go bang.
Explanations include an unknown virus, a fungus that has infected the water, or crows, which in an echo of the Alfred Hitchcock movie The Birds attack the toads, literally scaring them to death. -- AFP
** Personally, I think its the crows nipping at their livers. Beware of crows!@! ***
posted on April 29, 2005 07:07:02 AM
I should ammend that: Beware of sick infected crows! lol!!!
Today, the german toads, tomorrow the rest of the world population....muwahhaha!@!! A new form of biological weaponry!
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posted on April 29, 2005 08:05:26 AMExplanations include an unknown virus, a fungus that has infected the water, or crows, which in an echo of the Alfred Hitchcock movie The Birds attack the toads, literally scaring them to death. -- AFP
Get busy Crow...there are a couple of bloated toads on the RT who are swelled to the bursting point..and just ripe for popping!
I'm getting my bowl of popcorn and a diet coke and will sit back and watch the fireworks...
(and the entrails were propelled for up to meter) Whoo whoo!
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[/i]Get busy Crow...there are a couple of bloated toads on the RT who are swelled to the bursting point..and just ripe for popping! [/i]
lol!!!
Actually Maggie, I read that the crows are pickin straight at the toads livers and somehow destroying them and thats causing them to implode.
posted on April 29, 2005 08:14:45 AMGet busy Crow...there are a couple of bloated toads on the RT who are swelled to the bursting point..and just ripe for popping!
lol!!!
Actually Maggie, I read that the crows are pickin straight at the toads livers and somehow destroying them and thats causing them to implode.
But there was another quote in a UK newspaper that suggests the toads are being suicidal.
lol!
posted on April 29, 2005 06:12:13 PM
just imagine eating at an outdoor resturant and having one of those emploding right at your feet
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posted on April 30, 2005 07:00:12 AM
I thought toads blow themselves up to attract the opposite sex?????
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posted on April 30, 2005 07:01:11 AM
wished crowfart would do that
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posted on April 30, 2005 08:10:39 AM
LOL!!
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Baseball season has started,but they have it all wrong.3 strikes and you're out,4 balls you walk.I can tell you right now a man with 4 balls could not possibly walk
posted on April 30, 2005 06:47:52 PM
i dont trust anything coming out of Germany,they have no sense of humor,you know they dont laugh and then one day,they just cant hold on to it any longer,so they ALL BLOW UP.
They lied to cover the truth,those are not 1000 toads,those are the entire German nation .
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