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Watch Out for the Exploding Toads!

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(@cookirini)
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From AOL News.....yes, the are exploding toads:

BERLIN (April 27) - More than 1,000 toads have puffed up and exploded in a Hamburg pond in recent weeks, and scientists still have no explanation for what's causing the combustion, an official said Wednesday.

Both the pond's water and body parts of the toads have been tested, but scientists have been unable to find a bacteria or virus that would cause the toads to swell up and pop, said Janne Kloepper, of the Hamburg-based Institute for Hygiene and the Environment.

''It's absolutely strange,'' she said. ''We have a really unique story here in Hamburg. This phenomenon really doesn't seem to have appeared anywhere before.''

The toads at a pond in the upscale neighborhood of Altona have been blowing up since the beginning of the month, filling up like balloons until their stomachs suddenly burst.

''It looks like a scene from a science-fiction movie,'' Werner Schmolnik, the head of a local environment group, told the Hamburger Abendblatt daily. ''The bloated animals suffer for several minutes before they finally die.''

Biologists have come up with several theories, but Kloepper said that most have been ruled out.

The pond's water quality is no better or worse than other bodies of water in Hamburg, the toads did not appear to have a disease, and a laboratory in Berlin has ruled out the possibility that it is a fungus that made its way from South America, she said.

She said that tests will continue. In the meantime, city residents have been warned to stay away from the pond.

 
(@mr-creosote)
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So they have finally found the so called weapons of mass destruction then?

 
(@steebay31)
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Only in Germany. 😛

 
(@cykairus)
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Maybe someone's been lacing flies with alkaseltzer. You know, like feeding alkaseltzer to birds to make them explode.

 
(@jaffa-cake123)
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No, they're new handgrenades. They recently broke out of a secret testing lab from.... Mexico. DUN-DUN-DUUUUNNN

 
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(@ths)
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So what, these frogs have fold-up wings that are incredibly well hidden? o.o

 
(@silver-the-hedgehog)
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on the Hand grenade issue...

Biological weaponry to the MAX!

 
(@jaffa-cake123)
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So what, these frogs have fold-up wings that are incredibly well hidden? o.o


NO DAMMIT! They were accidently fired using a shagohod... Sheessshhhh, what ARE you on? I thought the awnser was obvious. 😛

 
(@mr-creosote)
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David Attenborough- Here we find the very rare, toadus explodus.

*Bang*

That is why they are so rare.

 
(@guardian-of-destiny)
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...o.o

Exploding toads? Oh, you know that is so cool. n.n

 
(@darkest-light)
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Man, I want a box of them. That would be the coolest addition to a waterfight, exploding frob bomb!

 
(@xagarath-ankor)
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Hmmm...
Poor toads...
Entertaining idea, though.

 
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