EXPLODING TOADS!!!--Exploding toads baffle German (toad)experts

[underpants]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/germanytoadsoffbeat

BERLIN (AFP) - Hundreds of toads have met a bizarre and sinister end in Germany in recent days, it was reported: they exploded.

According to reports from animal welfare workers and veterinarians as many as a thousand of the amphibians have perished after their bodies swelled to bursting point and their entrails were propelled for up to a metre (three feet).

Access to it has been sealed off and every night a biologist visits it between 2:00 and 3:00 am, which appears to be peak time for batrachians to go bang.


Explanations include an unknown virus, a fungus that has infected the water, or crows, which in an echo of the Alfred Hitchcock movie "The Birds", attack the toads, literally scaring them to death.

[Maestro]

1. Wierd

Perhaps it is a bacterial infection whereby the bacteria are releasing gas as a byproduct producing the exploding effect. :shrug:

[NorthernSpy]

8. you mean something like gas gangrene?

AKA Clostridium perfringens, I think. It's related to the bacterium that causes botulism, and you can get it via food poisoning also -- or so I seem to remember.

Whatever it is, it sure sounds terrible.

[Deja Q]

2. THE RAPTURE IS HERE! (yet I haven't exploded... or farted either.)

:hurts: :nuke:

[matcom]

3. anyone know where Bush has been?

:scared:

[maddiejoan]

5. It's Passover

Must be the 11th plague. Or a combo of the frogs one and the flaming hale one.

[NorthernSpy]

4. poprocks and pepsi

That's why they tell you not to feed wildlife. Poor little toads!

[mhr]

6. Damn, I'm Starting To Feel Bloated Again - Must Not Explode

Must Make It To The Head - Must Not Explode .....

[matcom]

7. i blame gay marriage

:evilgrin:

[underpants]

9. On a busy German road, a female toad makes haste...

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On a busy German road, a female toad makes haste, with her male partner clinging on, as a speeding car approaches. Hundreds of toads have met a bizarre and sinister end in Germany in recent days, it was reported: they exploded.(AFP/DPA/File/Markus Farhrer)