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Offline vyper

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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 (3.2 feet), in scenes that have been likened to science fiction.


Scientists are baffled. Possible explanations include an unknown virus or a fungus in the pond.
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Offline Deepblue

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Um... Okay...


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how intriguing...

 

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must smell funny around there.
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We had frogs around our pond in Florida.... When mating season ame along... the ground was covered in a strange purpley ooze..... The next months had the most croaking I've ever heard in my life.
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If they find out what's causing this, the potential benefits are enourmous. Australia currently has a huge problem with Cane Toads, but we have no native toads (ie proper Bufonidae). If this thing is selectively blowing up toads, spreading it across northern Australia could solve one of our biggest ecological problems...
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When i was a kid we used to "smoke" toads by leaning a lite cigarette to the toad´s mouth. The toad would inhale the smoke continuasly and swelled to the point of exploding...
We were very sick kids.
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Originally posted by Swamp_Thing

We were very sick kids.


I'll say... :wtf:


Well, atleast it wasn't firecrackers... although I suspect that'd been better, since it'd been quick.
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Offline Deepblue

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Originally posted by Black Wolf
If they find out what's causing this, the potential benefits are enourmous. Australia currently has a huge problem with Cane Toads, but we have no native toads (ie proper Bufonidae). If this thing is selectively blowing up toads, spreading it across northern Australia could solve one of our biggest ecological problems...


Why does that story always remind me of the Simpsons...

@Swamp_Thing: :wtf:

 
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Originally posted by Raa


I'll say... :wtf:


Well, atleast it wasn't firecrackers... although I suspect that'd been better, since it'd been quick.


As if you are innocent of such practices...
Kids will be kids, and every kid has a similar story to tell, even if some don´t want to publicaly admit it.
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Actually, no. I may have done some really stupid and mean things, but I was never cruel to animals.


Only humans. :p
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Heheheheheheh...

I was quite the litte bastard to the local wildlife when I was younger. I once put some firecrackers into a snakes mouth and lit them. Blew the thing into a couple of pieces. I also would shoot geese with my pellet gun and BB gun. Annoying birds they are. Also did the same thing to squirrels.

But what really takes the cake was one time me and some friends caught a bullfrog, and doused it in lighter fluid, and lit it on fire. Well, the damned thing hopped around the yard for a minute, scorching the grass, and then it somehow managed to get into the bushes in front of my friends mom's house. The thing lit the bushes on fire, and the patio that is next to the bushes. Back then it scared the crap outta us, but these days it's a story that is still good for a laugh or two.
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are you haunted by it's ghost?
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Offline Deepblue

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lol...

Why am I laughing, that's evil!

 
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Anyone remembers those frogs in some place in the US, that started growing with 3 legs, and other weird deformities? People accused polution and radiation, but it turns out it was just a parasite that lodged itself right on the place where the legs would grow out, even before it turned into a frog (can´t remember the accurate english term).
These toads could be suffering from some similar natural event, although i wouldn´t rule out polution just yet.
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holy exploding toads, batman!
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Offline Andreas

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How the hell can a frog just explode? :wtf: I think they should be employed by the military (frogs of mass destruction?).

What's so funny in hurting animals? Nothing wrong with killing and then eating them, but lighting a frog on fire just for fun? That's just sick. :no:
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Originally posted by Deepblue


Why does that story always remind me of the Simpsons...
 


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Offline DaBrain

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I never heard anything like this... and I do watch german news...


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Twas on the BBC too.
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