http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4486247.stm http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7654561/?GT1=6428
Okay. Couple months back, I read on several news sites that there was a German lake with toads that would swiftly swell up and explode. Last updates I’ve seen were in April. Late April, so not April Fools Day.
Anyone heard anything about this since then? I’m overly curious if the crows thought was the last idea.
Mops
August 31, 2005, 9:26am
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The latest article that I found in the main local paper was of 6 may and said that the crows were definitely the culprits:
translation:
According to investigation results of the Hamburg Institute for Hygiene and the Environment and other experts crows are responsible for the deaths of toads in Hamburg bodies of water. All dead toads that were examined had a wound in their side, also their liver was missing; some bodies were bloated. No indication of poison, infection or fungi were found. A Berlin amphibia expert concluded that birds pecked at the toads on their migration to their spawning grounds to get at their nutritious liver. When the toads inflated in order to deter their weakened body burst
Ah, many thanks. That’s far less creepy than some sort of unicellular baddy going to town suddenly, but still quite interesting.