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  • Exploding toads baffle German experts

    04/23/2005 2:57:10 PM PDT · by martin_fierro · 51 replies · 4,842+ views
    AFP/Yahoo ^ | Sat Apr 23,12:16 PM ET
    Exploding toads baffle German experts Sat Apr 23,12:16 PM ET 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). It is like "a science fiction film", according to Werner Smolnik of a nature protection society in the northern city of Hamburg, where the phenomenon of the exploding toad...