What's up with exploding toads?

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Mystery of German exploding toads

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

liver of the poor toads, and for reasons of the way toads are made they can explode then. The swelling is only because it's mating sesaon. The scientist interviewed stated that four or five crows would be enough to finish off the toad population of that one little lake.

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Hungry crows may be behind exploding toads
More than 1,000 creatures have puffed up and popped



Florian Quand / AP
The pond in Hamburg where the corpses have been found has been tested, but its quality is no better or worse than elsewhere in the city.
The Associated Press
Updated: 4:10 p.m. ET April 28, 2005BERLIN - What’s making toads puff up and explode in northern Europe? More than 1,000 toad corpses have been found at a pond in an upscale neighborhood in Hamburg and over the border in Denmark after bloating and bursting.

It’s left onlookers baffled. The pond water in Hamburg has been tested, but its quality is no better or worse than elsewhere in the city. The toad remains have been checked for a virus or bacterium, but none has been found.

One German scientist studying the splattered amphibian remains has a theory: Hungry crows are pecking out their livers.

“The crows are clever,” said Frank Mutschmann, a Berlin veterinarian who collected and tested specimens at the Hamburg pond. “They learn quickly from watching other crows how to get the livers.”..cont'd

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7654561/

PREPARE FOR RAPTURE!

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US Senate Republicans to take up immediate measure to place all frogs on life support. Bush is ready to to sign the act into law.


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...they're Suicide-Terrorist Toads! We must bomb Germany! (uh...again...)

Toad grenades!

It's the rapture AND fear of terror all wrapped up into one hideous prime-time news breaker!

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