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The Guardian hade det också ... och följde upp med lösningen. Kråkor är kloka!
"Still, at least Germans can give thanks that they were not born as toads, after the animals were recently spotted exploding in a park in Hamburg. According to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, witnesses noticed the toads "blowing up like balloons" - and then bursting. Some 1,000 dead toads have so far been recovered from a lake in the park. Scientists offered a range of explanations, the paper reported, including poisoning by a rare mushroom, panic attacks, and even excessive lovemaking. "We don't have any results yet, so we can't come up with a theory," Anke Himmelreich, a vet with Hamburg's Institute for Hygiene and Environment, admitted.
This week's Der Spiegel, however, announced that it had solved the mystery. The culprit, the magazine said, was a crow - or possibly several of them. Crows pecked out the toads' livers, leading the toads to explode because there was nothing dividing their abdominal cavity from their lungs. "Crows are intelligent animals," Frank Mutschmann, a vet, told Der Spiegel. "Three or four of them could have done it. They learn quickly how to eat a lot of delicious liver."
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Mystisk död bland tyska paddor, – de smäller som ballonger
30-04-2005, 08:49
