I’ve been waiting to see how long someone around here would write a diary about the exploding frog phenomenon in Germany. I guess I’ll take the lead, how else am I supposed to procrastinate?
So far, more than 1,000 toad corpses have been found at a pond in Hamburg and in Denmark. But the pond water in Hamburg has been tested, and its quality is no better or worse than elsewhere in the city. The remains have been checked for a virus or bacteria, but none has been found.
Based on the wounds, Mutschmann said, it appears that a bird pecks into the toad with its beak between the amphibian’s chest and abdominal cavity, and the toad puffs itself up as a natural defense mechanism.
But, because the liver is missing and there’s a hole in the toad’s body, the blood vessels and lungs burst and the other organs ooze out, he said.
And you thought YOU were having a bad day…
It doesn’t ALWAYS have to be serious around here. 🙂
it is scary.
Um. Boo?
For the toads.
to Karl Rove.
My thoughts exactly. There is more than one way to be Frog-Marched.
that we have Karl’s liver with a nice Chianti and some fava beans…?
Don’t forget the grilled onions. Bood…saw this somewhere earlier today, think maybe Yahoo!news. Can you imagine walking along a path in a park by a nice serene pond and out jumps a frog and then explodes. Groooooooosssssssssssssssss man!
only if we want to die a quick death…I’m sure his liver is as toxic as the rest of his sorry ass. And not even Chianti and fava beans would cover up the rotten taste..then again we’d be dead after the first bite so it’s a moot point I guess.