jeremy
Apr 26 2005, 3:20 pm
Well I have recently seen lots of toads bonking but not this:
Guardian: Toads that go bang in the nightQUOTE
Experts are apparently baffled why at least 1,000 amphibians have perished after their bodies swelled to bursting point and their entrails were propelled for up to a metre. Witnesses said they had seen toads swell to almost four times their normal size before they exploded.
The mystery has decimated the German city's toad population as well leaving toad parts rather unpleasantly scattered around parks and open spaces. The problem has been so severe in the Altona district of Hamburg that the open water there has been dubbed "the pond of death".
mightypies
Apr 26 2005, 3:23 pm
Hehe...
This is what you want, a politician telling us how he started playing golf and
cane toad cricket.different sort of explosion I guess, but same funny effect
markm
Apr 26 2005, 3:37 pm
Strange things are afoot...
alala
Apr 26 2005, 3:47 pm
is that a sign of the Apocalypse? maybe the Rapture really is coming...
BostonSportsFan
Apr 26 2005, 3:50 pm
Is it wrong that my first thought was "hahahaha"?
don_riina
Apr 26 2005, 3:58 pm
Apparently, it may have been caused by
QUOTE
the toads developing a violent defence mechanism to ward off crows that prey on them
?!?!?
Bit bloody extreme. If its defence they're worried about, surely they should have just evolved some massive crab pincers, or some sort of organic AK47 appendages.
More tea, Vicar?
Apr 26 2005, 4:05 pm
The toads are engaged in a burning-south-vietnamese-monk-style protest at the bloated consumer society around them. They are literally venting their spleen.
parnell
Apr 26 2005, 4:32 pm
The strangest thing is the toads are often still alive AFTER they've blown themselves up... apparently this makes for rather macabre viewing.
MajorBummer
Apr 26 2005, 6:35 pm
Shit. Zombie-toads stalking Hamburg.. That's all we needed.. This is getting scary. One could make a good movie out of it. Any ideas for a title?
QUOTE (alala @ Apr 26 2005, 4:47 pm)
is that a sign of the Apocalypse? maybe the Rapture really is coming...
Maybe the Rupture is really coming...
Darkknight
Apr 26 2005, 7:23 pm
Or maybe somebody fed them Alka Seltzer , or crammed it down their throat... Also works on birds...
MajorBummer
Apr 29 2005, 9:56 am
According to the SZ (read it this morning in the Panorama section) the mystery of the toads has been solved: Turns out that crows and gulls attacked the poor buggers, poking into their sides and ripping out their livers. Gross! Due to the resulting hole in the body the lungs of the toads actually bursted when they pumped themselves up (as is customary with toads in mating season).
I love crows, but they sure are the assholes of the bird world!
jeremy
Apr 29 2005, 10:02 am
QUOTE
Or maybe somebody fed them Alka Seltzer , or crammed it down their throat... Also works on birds...
Are you telling us you actually fed Alka Seltzers to birds?
As in really?
brokenm
Apr 29 2005, 11:07 am
Darkknight
Apr 29 2005, 11:23 am
QUOTE (jeremy @ Apr 29 2005, 9:02 am)
Are you telling us you actually fed Alka Seltzers to birds?
I can neither confirm or deny such Allegations. Any further questions or replies must be sent thru my lawyer...
Beg Tets
May 2 2005, 8:09 am
You can inflate frogs by sticking a strw up their arse and blowing. Apparently.
Or by sticking a cigarette in their mouths. Apparently.
I guess this is why the collective of crows is a 'murder'. Nasty birds.
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