James sent in this photo of a "supposedly mutant toad." He writes, "I would like to know whether it is real or not. I have heard stories about chemicals in ponds effecting the tadpoles, and causing deformaties in frogs legs, maybe the same thing has happened to this toad?"
If it is fake, it's a pretty decent photoshop job. It doesn't look like either the right or left eye has simply been cut-and-pasted into the middle. However, memories of the
four-eyed kitten make me want to say it's fake.
Update: The original image was found, thanks to Citizen Premier. So the mutant toad is definitely a fake.
James sent in this photo of a "supposedly mutant toad." He writes, "I would like to know whether it is real or not. I have heard stories about chemicals in ponds effecting the tadpoles, and causing deformaties in frogs legs, maybe the same thing has happened to this toad?"
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I vote fake.
It's already been proven that it is, in fact, a parasite that causes all those extra legs. The theory is that the frogs are slowed down by all that malformation and are easier for egrets to catch, which is were the parasite lives part of it's life.
A three-eyed toad wouldn't be impossible, but somehow I don't think it would look like that.
However, as I think I mentioned before, the Freakatorium in New York City (a great museum!) has a two-headed turtle named Frick and Frack. I saw it last year, and it was definitely alive and real, and both heads were perfect.
Also, the bottom middle of the middle eye looks blurry.
But still, I say if we have to look for that kind of details, it's pretty good Photoshop job!
Google image search for "toad," fourth page. Whoever did this sure wasn't a pro hoaxer!
Uh, w00t?????
" ... a little boy goes up to a pond near a nuclear plant and he sees a three- eyed fish that blinks at him."
Umm, Booch, next time you hear that a fish blinked, you might want to wonder if somebody's pulling your leg.
"Booch said:
' ... a little boy goes up to a pond near a nuclear plant and he sees a three- eyed fish that blinks at him.'
Umm, Booch, next time you hear that a fish blinked, you might want to wonder if somebody's pulling your leg."
Pop culture reference, buddy. Look it up.
See, if I was going to do something like this, I'd take my own picture of a toad to photoshop, and never upload the original. That way the fake couldn't be disproven by someone finding the original on Google, as so very many of today's fakes are.
So, is that a Cane Toad, also known as a Giant Toad? It looks reeeally big....
It's obviously not the cane toad. I don't think it's as big as it looks, I think it's just a high-detail photo (macro). This is just a postulate but I'd say the toad looks distinctly North American. It rather resembles the spadefoot toads I have in my house, although it certainly isn't that species.
' ... a little boy goes up to a pond near a nuclear plant and he sees a three- eyed fish that blinks at him.'
I think you're referring to The Simpsons, Booch?
I've seen a lot of animals with extra limbs, horns, and even the occasional head. (I've been working in circuses and side shows almost all my life).
But never ever an extra eye, with no other abnormality.
Freaks are never that pretty.
yupp i think its real....pleae got rough the link