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Exploding German Toads
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Posted By:
Charybdis
in Hell
Apr 26, 2005
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Not a hoax, just bizarre.
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4486247.stm" title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4486247.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4486247.stm</a>
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Accipiter
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 | 12:17 PM
Reminds me of that thing with the exploding whale in. . .I think it was Taiwan. They were carting it on a tractor-trailer through a town, and it blew up. |
X
in McKinney, TX
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 | 12:19 PM
Where are the video's??? |
Maegan
in Tampa, FL - USA
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 | 12:53 PM
Too much helium in their diets. |
LaMa
in Europe
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 | 12:55 PM
They would start to float in the sky then first, Maegan |
LaMa
in Europe
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 | 12:56 PM
I think its the same what killed the dinosaurs |
Winona
in USA
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 | 03:25 PM
Bizarre.
Any exploding animal reminds me of the one town that was trying to get rid of dead beached whales with explosives. Anyone see that footage?? |
alteregogi
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 | 05:38 PM
Ahh yes, the exploding whale. One of my all time fav videos.
Snopes
<a href="http://www.snopes.com/critters/disposal/whale.htm">Infamous Exploding Whale</a> |
Accipiter
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 | 05:59 PM
So there's more than one exploding whale? Interesting. The one I was thinking of was only a year or so ago, and it blew up due to the build-up of decomposition gases inside of it. They had loaded it onto a flatbed to haul it off to some labs to analyse it, but while passing through some town it blew up and covered the street and stores and cars and people with rotten whale guts. There was an interesting photo of the aftermath, too. |
Citizen Premier
in spite of public outcry
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 | 11:36 PM
Ah, but this one was more stupid, Accipiter. This was where they decided to blow up the whale themselves, in order to get rid of it. I suppose they assumed it was just going to turn into a cloud of whale gas. I can't understand why they were allowed to handle explosives. |
Citizen Premier
in spite of public outcry
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 | 11:37 PM
Am I the only one who kept wishing free willy would explode? |
Black Shard
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 | 09:54 AM
the explodin' toads? I've heard that it's becuase the crows were pecking out their livers....really!!! |
Maegan
in Tampa, FL - USA
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 | 11:27 AM
Wouldn't they have a huge hole in them, if that were the case? |
Myst
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Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 | 12:03 AM
Here you go Maegan
<a href="http://www.local6.com/news/4429888/detail.html">Birds May Be Behind Exploding German Toads</a>
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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."
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.
As gruesome as it sounds, it isn't actually that unusual, he said. |
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