Mystery of German exploding toads
BBC Story
The toads of Altona are dying in their thousands
Toads in an area of northern Germany are being killed off by a mysterious disease - they are exploding.
Thousands of the amphibians have died in recent days in a pond in Hamburg's Altona district, with their bodies swelling to bursting point.
The toads' entrails are propelled for up to a metre (3.2ft), in scenes that have been likened to science fiction.
Scientists are baffled. Possible explanations include a unknown virus or a fungus in the pond.
"You see the animals crawling on the ground, swelling and then exploding," German conservationist Werner Smolnik told AFP news agency.
The bodies of the toads expanded to three and a half times their normal size, he said.
"I have never seen such a thing," AFP quotes veterinarian Otto Horst as saying. The site - which has been dubbed "the pond of death" - has been closed to the public.
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04-26-2005, 05:39 PM #1
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0Bernhard - Stop Blowing Up the Toads! (nsr)
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04-26-2005, 05:41 PM #2
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If it turns out to be a disease they should call it Roocellus.
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04-26-2005, 06:07 PM #3
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Mutating these creatures to bullfrogs is probably Bernhard's revenge upon us folks here.
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04-27-2005, 06:02 AM #4
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Isn't this one of the signs of an impending apocalypse?
Of all the muthafuckas on earth, you the muthafuckest.
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04-27-2005, 07:23 AM #5
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It's obviously a miracle, "The toad blew up just as I snapped the picture and suddenly a bird flew into it." Translate through a couple of different languages and then back to English and you'll get the Bernie version.
I should probably change my username to IReallyDon'tTeleMuchAnymoreDave.
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