Toads are exploding in Germany. They have been for quite some time now leaving the ubiquitous "experts" a little bit befuddled and very much bemused.
This somewhat gruesome phenomenon has also left these experts characteristically bewitched by the endless quest to find the inconvenience of man's presense on this earth somehow responsible.
Environmentalists have been summoned, pond water has been tested, and human activity has been vilified...but no one has asked the crows:
...(A) German scientist studying the splattered amphibian remains now has a theory: Hungry crows may be pecking out their livers.I've had my run-ins with birds in the past...but this kind of nonsense crosses the line.
"The crows are clever," said Frank Mutschmann, a Berlin veterinarian who collected and tested specimens at the Hamburg pond. "They learn quickly from watching other crows how to get the livers."
Based on the wounds, Mutschmann said, it appears that a bird pecks into the toad with its beak between the amphibian's chest and abdominal cavity, and the toad puffs itself up as a natural defense mechanism.
But, because the liver is missing and there's a hole in the toad's body, the blood vessels and lungs burst and the other organs ooze out, he said.
Toads are dying daily at the beaks of their uncaring avian oppressors. We can no longer sit in silence while countless batrachians perish as birds literally feast on their vital organs! We must rise up and put an end to the pestilent scourge that is ravaging our planet!!
Fight the power, my friends. Fight the power!
(Hat tip to Mark...I'm no bird fan either)
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