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![]() Detroit Free Press April 29, 2005 Toads are exploding in ponds in Hamburg, Germany, and Laasby, Denmark, and scientists can't say for certain why. More than 1,000 toads have puffed up and burst in recent weeks in the Hamburg pond; an unknown number have met the same fate in Laasby. Pond water has been checked and shards of toad, too, but only one theory has popped up. CBS News 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." |