March 06, 2004

A three-headed frog. That's right, a frog with three heads. And six legs! Think of the French people it could feed! Mmmmm-mmm, that's some good eatin'. With pic.

And it was found in Weston-super-Mare, which is where John Cleese was born, which must have something to do with it. Maybe.

posted by Nostrildamus 20 years ago
  • The creature - which has six legs - has stunned BBC wildlife experts who warned it could be an early warning of environmental problems. "Could be an early warning" I can't wait to see the long lasting effects of enviornmental problems.
  • Minnesota has been having problems with deformed frogs for a while, though they attribute it to pesticides. In the true spirit of the Internet, there's a frogcam with some specimens.
  • This is what I thought initially, too. I'm suspicious of this one. Despite it "stunning" these experts, to me the frogs don't look conjoined, just clinging together.
  • Well, that sorts it out. Thanks for the followup, goetter. Multiple amplexus is common, when more than one male grips the same female (or sometimes, mistakenly, another male). Ah, but how do we know it was mistakenly? Discrimination! Amplexuses of the world unite!
  • a flaming frog?
  • Flaming frogs--on a skewer! Why does EVERYTHING wind up sounding dirty? *goes back to IT thread to chastize the nasty Monkeys*
  • Snub Kermit? Ha!
  • Animal Health Warning The moon were at its full that night when I first heard Horace croak, 'twere on the road to Froghall some eight miles east of Stoke. Why I called him Horace I've not a bloody clue! -anyway, that's beside the point, he were cold and somewhat blue. I gathered up some logs and twigs and made a little fire and placed him by heartenin' flames -he began then to perspire. In a short while he began to smoke and crackle quite a bit and then began to sizzle, so I stuck him on a spit. And the moon were at its full that night when I last heard Horace croak -he didn't die of lung cancer but it taught him not to smoke. ...Humans can seriously damage your health Copyright; Ephraim Crud