Actually, since the original Blinky had three eyes, and this frog has three heads, something referencing its three heads would be more appropriate. Something like Noddy. But that really wouldn't be very funny.
if that makes your appetite go away why, oh why, are you reading slashdot?
the pic of the frog isnt that disgusting even and like said on the article they're primitive animals(I'm pretty sure a mammal would have died of complications way much earlier). besides, siamese twins are much more 'disgusting' and happen on humans every now and then(albeit very rare).
curious happening. hardly stuff that matters though.
-- world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Well, you've hit a strange subject that touches nether regions of the psyche there. To me, Siamese twins aren't nearly as "disgusting" as this creature, though one lower body with two torsos might come close. There's something about nature's mistakes when they happen at this level of sophistication -- between plant and mammal -- that hit me right in the creepy zone. As soon as I clicked the tab on the BBC story I clicked away before I could really grasp what this abomination looks like. There's a chthonic, nauseating, freakazation about it I don't want to sleep on. Yikes.
well some years ago there was a documentary on tv here about one(or two? two upper bodies iirc) such russian womans.
Really strange though.
but this frog doesn't really compare to them at all.
-- world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Re:ugh
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Anonymous Coward
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Vote Senator Kelly-For a mutant free america. Report your fellow mutants!
Kermit and Piggy's Babies
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Anonymous Coward
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....so this is what happens when a pig and a frog do the nasty?
Re:Kermit and Piggy's Babies
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Anonymous Coward
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Q: What's green and smells like pork?
A: Kermit's finger
Sad.
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Anonymous Coward
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I find it really sad that they're just going to keep it around living like this. I mean, I feel bad about killing it, but I think that it needs to be done. How can a creature with three heads and six legs like that thing, in the way it is put together, possibly have a comfortable life - even for a frog? It just looks confusing and painful and a terrible existance. It seems the humane thing to do would be to euthanize it..
I don't know, it's seems to be doing pretty well as it is... Don't assume it's a terrible existence just because it's different from the norm.
I'm sure that if you or I were thrown into an existence like that it might be unbearable, but things would become easier as we learned to cope, these frogs, as well as some humans, have never known another existence, therefore it isn't so unbearable to them.
-- 'And all the monkeys aren't in the zoo Every day you meet quite a few...'
Re:Sad.
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Anonymous Coward
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From what I read, the frog escaped and they're now looking for it. So they can't kill it yet, although, I'm sure when they find it they'll do all sorts of crazy experiments on it, so... yeah that might not be better..
Don't forget we're talking about a frog. Something like this might be a real tragedy for a human being, because or our own social behaviour. But, from the social standpoint of a frog (if there's such a thing), I don't thing this is going to be a problem.
I guess the definition of "happiness" for a frog would be something like "being healthy and well-fed". This one looks quite happy to me.
I find it really sad that they're just going to keep it around living like this. I mean, I feel bad about killing it, but I think that it needs to be done.
Well, it's not like they had much of a choice. They kept it confined for a while, but then it hopped away on its own when it had the opportunity. Seems like it's doing it's froggy best to express a will to live...
-- Don't you wish your girlfriend was a geek like me?
It escaped, didn't it? If it can make it "over the wall", I'd say it's healthy enough. The only true evidence of survivability is actual survival. Unless you are a puppy or a baby seal, then the secret is to have a face that looks like a human baby.
Note the reflexive conclusion in the article about pollution. A thousand years ago, gullible people might have thought a two headed goat was a sign the world was in danger. But in this enlightened time, we think a three headed frog is a sign that... the earth is in danger. Surprise == fear. See, we get a little smarter every day.
If you listen closely...
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...you can hear them say "Bud-," "-weis-," "-er.'
-- Yoda of Borg am I! Assimilated shall you be! Futile resistance is, hmm?
Re:If you listen closely...
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Comedy gold.
What is this?
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Anonymous Coward
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The only question to ask is whether science.slashdot.org has turned into Fark's "Strange" section, or whether it's Fark's photoshop contests.
Lake District
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Anonymous Coward
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Is this in the Lake District, where you get all the radioactive Rain from the Irish Sea?
There's this Nuke Refurbishing plant that dumps lots of radioactive junk into the Irish Sea in Shellafield (sp? geo?), so the Irish Sea is full of it, and Cancer rates along the Beaches have gone way up. Any connection, anyone?
I am afraid the children in the nursery actualy did try the separation surgery and now they have to resort to excuses like:
"The mystery amphibian is currently the subject of a frog-hunt after it hopped away and disappeared as staff at the nursery showed it to curious parents."
-- I doubt that we will ever figure out - and I suspect that even if we did figure out we couldn't do much about it
I have to agree. I didn't expect that feeling like I was watch an operaton on TLC, but that's what I got.
'Don't look. But I gotta look. Don't look. . . "
Re:OK, that's freaky
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Anonymous Coward
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Come on, it's just a frog. Getting queasy over something as mundane as a frog mutation is bound to cause problems later. What if you were around when some freak accident happened and you needed to save someone's life but paniced because of the blood? I used to be like you but a couple videos on www.ogrish.com saved me. Go check them out if you want to get over this.
-- I doubt that we will ever figure out - and I suspect that even if we did figure out we couldn't do much about it
Don't knock it.
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Anonymous Coward
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Miss Piggy and Kermie went to California last week and got married. Don't knock alternative lifestyles until you've tried it. In this case, a little "pig in the blanket" if you know what I mean.
Democracy meets Biology
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stuffduff
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I wonder how it decides where to go next?
Each head has it's own tongue, so which fly to catch is not an issue, but:
Where do you want to go today?
Is a whole other question!
-- "Can there be a Klein bottle that is an efficient and effective beer pitcher?"
Re:Democracy meets Biology
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ALL HEADS:
You're a Knight of the Round Table? ROBIN:
I am. LEFT HEAD:
In that case, I shall have to kill you. MIDDLE HEAD:
Shall I? RIGHT HEAD:
Oh, I don't think so. MIDDLE HEAD:
Well, what do I think? LEFT HEAD:
I think kill him. RIGHT HEAD:
Oh, let's be nice to him. LEFT HEAD:
Oh, shut up. ROBIN:
Perhaps I could-- LEFT HEAD:
And you. Oh, quick! Get the sword out. I want to cut his head off! RIGHT HEAD:
Oh, cut your own head off! MIDDLE HEAD:
Yes, do us all a favour! LEFT HEAD:
What? RIGHT HEAD:
Yapping on all the time. MIDDLE HEAD:
You're lucky. You're not next to him. LEFT HEAD:
What do you mean? MIDDLE HEAD:
You snore! LEFT HEAD:
Oh, I don't. Anyway, you've got bad breath. MIDDLE HEAD:
Well, it's only because you don't brush my teeth. RIGHT HEAD:
Oh, stop bitching and let's go have tea. LEFT HEAD:
Oh, all right. All right. All right. We'll kill him first and then have tea and biscuits. MIDDLE HEAD:
Yes. RIGHT HEAD:
Oh, not biscuits. LEFT HEAD:
All right. All right, not biscuits, but let's kill him anyway. ALL HEADS:
Right! MIDDLE HEAD:
He buggered off. RIGHT HEAD:
So he has. He's scarpered.
It just looks like a big pile of frog parts, all mashed together!
really freaky...
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watching on tv last night on the local section of the news...
It's not a hoax, there really are three heads and most of three bodies merged on that animal... but only two forelegs but I was unable to determine exactly how many rear legs there were... but then again frog's bums don't exactly appeal to me either...
-- Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
Sure looks to me like the more common 2-headed frog sitting on top of the ususal 1-headed model...note all the extra feet/legs.
-- "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand". -Milton F.
As seen on the x-files...
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I saw an episode of the x-files...Where UFO radiation caused anything touching to become one thing when it flew over them. There was a lizard with it's head stuck in a rock, a gas station attendant got stuck to the floor. The funniest though was a couple of horny teenagers that got their heads entangled while making out.
The picture looks more like 3 frogs got 'stuck' together rather than a frog with 3 heads.
-- /^([Ss]ame [Bb]at (time, |channel.)){2}$/
Three heads is fine, but...
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Anonymous Coward
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From the article: The mystery amphibian is currently the subject of a frog-hunt after it hopped away and disappeared as staff at the nursery showed it to curious parents.
I'd give it a day or two before declaring that it's real, to give them time to recapture the frog and study it. Even if there were lots of eyewitnesses, the strength of super glue is really quite amazing.
Mythological Typographical Error
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Is this the frog that guards the gates of Hades? No, that's three-headed dog.
Maybe this is the guy who guards the gates of Froggy-Hell!!!
-- Those who can, do. Those who can't, simulate.
Re:Mythological Typographical Error
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Kermberus!
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Re:Mythological Typographical Error
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oll
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Hey! Where are the mods? This was really funny!
And I will call you Cerberus...
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Obviously we're very close to the entry of Amphibian Hell.
One more location that I won't drink the water. Two heads is enough for me.
Canaries in the coal mine baby!
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Frogs are more sensitive to environmental pollutants and toxins because they're able to absorb many of them directly through their skin. They're developmentally simple animals so mutations show up more easily in their external morphology. Interestingly, since frogs eggs are separate cells and the membrane (which also absorbs toxins) would probably prevent three developmental frogs from sticking, this is one frog that has developed three frogs - not some sort of conjoined twin thing. (Although the difference there is a matter of degree, not kind.)
This is the most dramatic example of what I've seen yet but frog mutations are extremely common. Check out this, or this (warning more gross pics). Does anyone but me wonder why we tolerate this level of contamination in our environment? I'm not a Green but I do object to being poisoned for some companies bottom line.
Re:Canaries in the coal mine baby!
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Um, maybe because of the first line of your post? Frogs are hypersensitive to this stuff. What mutates a frog doesn't even make a human baby burp.
--- Ruling people is easy. Make them terrified then offer to deliver them from their fear.
-- You can tell a great deal about the character of a man by observing those who hate him.
Re:Canaries in the coal mine baby!
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So when do we stop? When snakes start to grow heads at both ends? When deer start getting extra legs? Pollution is a cumulative thing - if there's enough now to cause mutations in frogs to this degree, pretty soon it WILL start affecting mammals such as ourselves (if it hasn't already).
I never understood why people just don't care about this type of thing, even though there's horrible proof right in their faces.
It's like a friend driving his Hummer down the smog-filled street (and not capable of seeing the tops of the skyscrapers) but telling me that pollution is just a big scare by all the environmentalists and that there's nothing wrong - HE'S HEALTHY. Although I'm not Green either (like the grandparent post), I can't understand the reasoning. What will it take to change their minds?
Whoa./rant off.
Re:Canaries in the coal mine baby!
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Anonymous Coward
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despite the fact that capitalist nations have the cleanest environments in the world.
You might want to qualify that somehow. The US, for instance, puts out 20% of carbon dioxide emissions. It certainly doesn't contain 20% of the population, or 20% of the landmass of the world.
Re:Canaries in the coal mine baby!
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We keep going till there are chickens with ten pairs of drumsticks and thighs.;) Maybe then KFC would lower the darn price on their 20-pc buckets.
Or in software terms: One man's bug is another's feature. (mutation or wide-scale genetic engineering?)
-- 0-
Eamonman
Proud member of DNRC
Re:Canaries in the coal mine baby!
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Hadean
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Yes, the environment is indeed self-purifying, I never said it wasn't, but just not fast enough to account for the amount of toxins that released. Actually, I should have been more specific - there are two kinds of toxins, some cumulative, some not.
A simple Google search came up with a ton of pages supporting this, like this one should that shows the accumulation of toxins in marine biology ("Non-cumulative toxins do not increase in concentration in the body, even if the organism is chronically exposed to the toxin. Conversely, cumulative toxins, tend to increase in concentration, and are often associated with a specific tissue, e.g., cadmium tends to increase over time in the digestive gland of blue crabs."). this link, this link and this one also talk about the cumulative nature of pollution. etc.etc.
So where are your links?
I agree that a single mutated frog isn't PROOF that pollution is involved, that mutations will occur to surrounding mammals, whatever, BUT it should at least make you stop and think for a second, asks questions, etc., instead of just shrug and ignore it completely - which is what I was getting at.
Sadly, you're just as bad as those environmentalists you attack... ignoring everybody else.
Re:Canaries in the coal mine baby!
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Hadean sez: "So when do we stop?"
At very latest, when there are so few left that we no longer can have a significant impact on the ecosphere. Frankly I doubt we'll stop until the situation ensures that outcome, although it hadn't occurred yet.
-- "I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid." -- Bishop 341-B
Re:Canaries in the coal mine baby!
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Chernobyl mice are changing due to pollution, just a lot faster. The link discusses how mice have mutated more in the last 20 years than in the last 15 million, points out that pollution does have its effect. This is just anonter example of how life is changing, for the better or for the worse. I would guess that due to pollution, we are getting more copies of DNA in sensitive animals for redundency, but if those copies all express themselves, you might get more legs as an example.
Another thought, pollution could just be another form of chaotic engergy causing recombinations to occur. It would probally make for a nice study when compared to evolution.
sensationalism... bleh...
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The creature - which has six legs - has stunned BBC wildlife experts who warned it could be an early warning of environmental problems.
When there are a few hundred documented cases of this it's time to be alarmed. Here, it looks like a few eggs failed to adequately separate. I doubt the frogs even have the same DNA. The fact that their pond was 2-3 Kelvin warmer than it would have been 50 years ago has nothing to do with this freak occurance.
Re:sensationalism... bleh...
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Guy+Harris
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The fact that their pond was 2-3 Kelvin warmer than it would have been 50 years ago has nothing to do with this freak occurance.
The comment to which you're responding said "environmental problems", not "global warming".
Re:sensationalism... bleh...
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Anonymous Coward
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I used to live in a third world country where sewage was dumped into the local river. It was common to find mutated frogs. There most rare were the two headed ones, but they still were occasional finds. Others had three hind legs. We used to tie these to a string and spin them around as fast as we could then smack it on a rock. You would also light a firecracker in its mouth and let it hop. A few seconds later there would be body parts all over. Sometimes you could find a heart still beating.
Re:sensationalism... bleh...
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ps. that third one looks kinda like Tinkerbells legs sprouting out of a frog's ass. Kindagruesome. Time to order dinner from that Frenchy place on third ave.
-- Big Daddy, Johnny, Burp, Aunt Zelda, Scott, Slurp, Big Momma... where's Siggy?
Re:sensationalism... bleh...
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Anonymous Coward
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Just cause you haven't heard of it doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Slashdot should let you google search before you post, just so you can see if you actually have a clue or not.
The next thing you know...
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You'll see these suckers in tanks in French restaurants like seafood places have lobsters. Oo-la-la! Ze Seks leg'ed frog!
-- Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.
Re:The next thing you know...
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Anonymous Coward
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I have a sudden urge to sing Django Reinhardt songs.
Bat-Boy has been photographed out on the town with Lisa-Marie!
Hm.
Well, two-headed snakes are not all that exceedingly rare. I've not heard of three-headed reptiles or amphibians, but I have seen frogs with six or more legs, had a friend who was born with a six fingers on each hand, and once had a pet cat with three extra paws. The system seems pretty well written, but there are still some bugs.
-- Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachtani? www.fogbound.net
Looks like a Froggy Orgy Gone Wrong
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Alliante
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No cause have been found for those frogs in MN, other than random mutation. There is no more or less polution in that area then other places where frogs live normally. The mutation doesn't strongly stop the ability of frogs to breed, so you get more of them.
If this was a different discussion you would call them proff of evolution.
Re:Partially discredited
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Inexile2002
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Can you supply some references? Because who it's been discredited by and who paid for the studies (assuming you're siting studies) matters in these things. Frankly, I don't buy it. There are frog mutations all over (not just in England or MN) and dramatic increases in them that coincide with the rise of toxins in the environment. I'm going to go dig up the article I read about it and post a link in a bit. Got to get back to work now though.
Because who it's been discredited by and who paid for the studies (assuming you're siting studies) matters in these things.
That's an ad hominem attack, and one common among liberals. Can't fight the facts? Fight the "motivation" of the people who presented them.
The same technique could be applied to the page you linked, ya know. State bureaucracies only grow when they have something that "needs doing", so of course a state environmental agency will find problems in the environment. That's the reason for their existance, and if they couldn't find problems they would all lose their jobs.
-- God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
That's an ad hominem attack, and one common among liberals. Can't fight the facts? Fight the "motivation" of the people who presented them.
Both the people commonly called "liberals" and "conservatives" view other worldviews with a high degree of suspicion, and so this sort of attack is rather common in both camps.
State bureaucracies only grow when they have something that "needs doing", so of course a state environmental agency will find problems in the environment.
This is roughly equivalent to saying people tend to find what they're looking for, rather than being a specific indictment of problems with government organizations.
And the truth of that core statement makes having a state or at the very least non-profit organization that watches out for the environment imperative. Because businesses are looking for profits, and tend to socialize costs while privatizing profits. They'll be the last organizations who, by the "you see what you look for" law of human nature, are going to find (much less pay attention) to environmental issues. If there are going to be effective environmental organizations, they're going to have to exist in the public sector.
-- Libertarianism is rich wolves and poor sheep playing gambler's ruin for dinner.
transcription errors from its journey to Midieval France.
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I was thinking of converting to paganism, but where the hell can you find sacrificial virgins these days?
Green in a nutshell
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>I'm not a Green but I do object to being poisoned for some companies bottom line.
Err, I think you summarized the entire Green platform with that last bit. Beware, due to pollution and toxins, you might mutate into a Green, oh no!
Myself, I'm not a libertarian, I just want less government. I'm not a republican, I just want lower taxes. I'm not a democrat, I just want a lower debt. And I'm not an anarchist, I just post to slashdot occassionally:)
-- A.
Re:Green in a nutshell
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Anonymous Coward
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I'm not a democrat. I just like anally raping the rich while stealing their hard-earned money and giving it to the lazy poor.
Re:Green in a nutshell
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Inexile2002
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True that an exception to being poisoned is part of the Green platform... and just saying that out loud makes me feel weird... I mean, who's for being poisoned. Just that the "Green" ideology embraces much more than a strong objection to toxins in our environment.
Not that I disagree with most of it - most of what the environmentalists say makes sense on at least some levels. But that doesn't mean that that's the core of my politics and I believe that sometimes other things do take precedent over conservation. I'm not a Green. But that doesn't mean I like the whole toxins in my food, air and water thing.
I take clean food, clean water and clean air fairly seriously - and more than most. I'm a vegetarian, I drink distilled or at least filtered water and as often as possible, I eat only carefully washed organic fruits and veggies. These are dietary habits that are typically found in the hippy/green/environmentalist but that doesn't mean they're exclusive to them.
Not to offend you, but it's a fairly simplified worldview that summarized entire and diverse political movements or ideologies in a single sentence or a few words. Some Libertarians could give a damn about the size of the government or the extent of the government's role in their life as long as the rule of law and the role of government is still devoted to personal freedom in the strict John Stewart Mill sense.
Re:Green in a nutshell
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>I'm not a Green but I do object to being poisoned for some companies bottom line.
Err, I think you summarized the entire Green platform with that last bit.
Hardly. There's nothing inherently Green about wanting a clean environment. I know I do. Now if he had insisted that be go back to an agrarian society, or more accurately, a Stone-age society, then he would be a Green.
-- You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
Re:Green in a nutshell
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Anonymous Coward
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Why would a democrat do that? Most of the prominent democrats are rich themselves...
Re:Green in a nutshell
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Anonymous Coward
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Actually I think the statement "I'm not a Green but I do object to being poisoned for some companies bottom line." pretty much is the Green party line. Blaming all the worlds problems on big business is what the green party is all about, not environmentalism.
Re:Green in a nutshell
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Now if he had insisted that be go back to an agrarian society, or more accurately, a Stone-age society, then he would be a Green.
The key values of the Green party are: grassroots democracy, social justice and equal opportunity, ecological wisdom, non-violence, decentralization, community-based economics and economic justice, feminism and gender equity, respect for diversity, personal and global responsibility, and future focus and sustainability. None of which require returning to the Stone Age.
-- Tom Swiss | the infamous tms | my blog You cannot wash away blood with blood
Re:Green in a nutshell
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ConceptJunkie
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The key values of the Green party are: grassroots democracy, social justice and equal opportunity, ecological wisdom, non-violence, decentralization, community-based economics and economic justice, feminism and gender equity, respect for diversity, personal and global responsibility, and future focus and sustainability.
Yes, and each and every one of those terms is so broad and vague that they could apply to almost every political party on the planet.
Who would argue with "social justice" or "equal opportunity"? I bet the Green Party is also for Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness too. Hooray.
-- You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
Re:Green in a nutshell
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Yes, and each and every one of those terms is so broad and vague that they could apply to almost every political party on the planet.
Follow the link. Ask yourself how the Republicans and the Democrats stack up against these values.
-- Tom Swiss | the infamous tms | my blog You cannot wash away blood with blood
It changes into the Frog formerly known as Prince.
Is this even real?
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jpsowin
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The photo is fake. The news article says that some people saw it but it got away. So they are merely going on what a few people said and now they are showing a fake frog picture to "prove" it. They're currently "looking" for the frog that was spoken of.
Fishy?
Re:Is this even real?
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astroboscope
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The news article says that some people saw it but it got away.
And after they took all those pictures they didn't think to take it inside? What really makes me suspicious is that a 3-frog fusion managed to get away and hide from a whole daycare full of kids and their parents. How fast could it possibly go?
-- If we were ants living on a Rubik's cube, differential
geometry would be a little more confusing.
Well, if it's a fake it's a really good one. Saw a film of it on the news (in the UK) last night. Breathing like a normal frog, well... three normal frogs.
Frog Just Doing What Comes Naturally
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cmjensen
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That's not a mutant frog. That's frog porn.
Doesn't anybody remember this
hoax which turned out to be pretty much the same thing? Here is a good discussion of the issue
Re:Frog Just Doing What Comes Naturally
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Anonymous Coward
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Yep; join PeeGeeDee as one of the few sane people here. As you say, it's just multiple amplexus. But I think in this case dull fact is destined to be swamped by the shock horror mutation theories from people who've never actually seen mating frogs.
A witch, a witch!
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Anonymous Coward
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It's a set of congenital ("Siamese") triplet frogs. I saw the media describe a pair of human siamese twins that way pretty recently too (two-headed child or something to that effect). I couldn't help thinking how offended I would be if (hypothetically speaking) my Siamese-twin brother and I were collectively referred to as a single two-headed person.
But then, I doubt the frogs care.
Re:Not a three-headed frog
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Anonymous Coward
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err.. conjoined. Well, it's also congenital, but I don't think that's what you meant.
Re:Not a three-headed frog
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Rufus88
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Yes. Thank you for the correction.
OK, who's playing around with the transporter...
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chocho99
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Why were the shocked?
It is uncommon, but not unknown.
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-- There Is No God Where I Is.
Lots of crazy people these days???
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Anonymous Coward
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The gradual accumulation of pollutants in the enviroment probablly explains why there appears to be more mentally deranged people (extreem terrorism etc), just look at the fact that the coal burning plants (just in the US), produce 46 tons of mercury per year.....all that toxic stuff has to go somewhere...perhaps those veggies you had for dinner had some small dose of mercury, for instance, some pople are very sensitive to mercury and after getting enough over a long period of time tend to go nuts and also suffer from cancer etc....another source of mercury is that each flourescent light (street lights too) has about 1 drop of mercury in each bulb...it's not only the whales and fishes that have a toxic load in their fat cells, people do too (i also read an article that old people really have accumulated quite a toxic mix of chemicals in their fat...mabey that explains why really old people (when they get really old and loose their body fat) tend to be a bit nuts....I also read that by the middle of this century, about 1/2 of males and females will get cancer...I think it't time to stop feeding the world-wide war machines and to instead put lots of money into biotech and nonotech and clean up the eviroment and do cool things like life-extention and better health.
It is very possible that the three headed frog is actually three separate frogs. The one on the bottom would be a female and the two on her back would be males. This how frogs mate. The two male frogs are simply holding onto the female, waiting for her lay her eggs. Once she does that, they will fertilize the eggs. Usually, only one male frog gets to do the honors, but in this case there were two. Maybe they were buddies.
>It is very possible that the three headed frog is >actually three separate frogs. The one on the >bottom would be a female and the two on her back >would be males. This how frogs mate.
Actually I saw a video of the frog on CNN which is how I heard about it. It's actually a singular entity... Conjoined twins as one poster pointed out. You can see in the video as the skin on one of the heads merges seemlessly with another one of the frogs... The skin color even changes in a slight fade. When it moves you can see there's skeletal structure inside the poor thing that doesn't even manifest into legs. It's like there's a couple of legs under the skin in there, and it just looks like it half crawls, half ooozes as it moves about.
That would make this a strange anomoly, indeed! The article posted here, however, says nothing about CNN or even BBC actually BEING there. In fact, the article says that the frog hopped away and that was it. The article does not say that a wildlife expert had actually examined the frog. In fact, the article says that the frog had six legs that worked normally. That makes me think that maybe the article is incorrect about several things.
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Darn me! PeeGeeDee, you're the only person here talking sanity! This is simply a case of "multiple amplexus": two male frogs gripping a female, as sometimes happens with horny frogs. Look at the picture; the central frog is a different colour, dammit. You don't get conjoined non-identical individuals. Do a Google image search on "amplexus" to convince yourselves that frogs clinging on the backs of other frogs is commonplace. They cling very tightly, and with frogs being squashy, it's often hard to see the join. Note also a 2002 Massachusetts newspaper item where, similarly, some family thought a mating pair of toads was a two-headed toad before a herpetologist pointed out the stupidity. Get real - and check out here for a few links I collated.
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After living in this crudhole of Weston for so many years, I can guarantee that this frog exists and is no hoax. I saw it! It buggered off though after a while, perhaps to eat all our children.
So, yes, it's certainly not a hoax, and it looks quite well attached together as one. I obviously didn't get too close, it's freaky.
If this frog had wings...
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I took the liberty of not reading the majority of previous posts, but this didn't seem like that big of a deal to me.
When someone first (belatedly) spoke of a three headed frog on IRC I assumed they meant a three headed parasitic twin type affair (ie. two useless heads growing out of a frog) but it seems more like siamese triplets to me. I mean, I'm more a tech geek than a science one, but don't most people cover thant kind of stuff in high school? Incorrectly separated embryos and all that.
Incidentally, I'm terrified of both frogs (in general) and parasitic twins (mostly because we had a frog with two legs growing out of it's head in year 8 science class) so I'm gonna have fun sleeping tonight.:)
It's not so much a 3 headed frog as it is 3 frogs stuck together. Frogs lay a "gob-o-eggs" which stick together for a while (presumably to make them easier to fertilize) then drift apart after fertilization (presumably to make it more difficult for something to eat ALL of them). Aparently something, either chance or environment, made 3 of these eggs stick together. Frogs are pretty simple critters so things that might kill some other critter doesn't kill a frog. So it's not that frogs are really more prone to this sort of thing as much as it is that damaged frogs are more likely to survive.
Being a frog like that might not be all that bad to some people. Dates automatically qualify as orgies. Heck, even masturbation could be an orgie...
Oh I feel so sick right now.
After really do a whole bunch of research on this (believe me!), I've come to the conclusion that my hunch that the "three headed frog" is actually three separate frogs is correct. First, the article says that the little kids lost their frog(s). Evidently, after much searching, the frog(s) cannot be found. No scientist actually examined the frog(s), either. There were just a few still pictures taken of the frog(s).
It is much more highly probable that these are three separate frogs -- a female on the bottom with two males holding onto her, side by side. This, actually, is not unusual and happens very often. In my studies of amphibians, I have actually had male frogs grab my hand and hang on like that (They sure liked my hand!). You'd be amazed at how tightly they will grip you! In the wild they will hold onto the female and tightly grip her until she lays her eggs in the water. It is at that time that the male(s) fertilize(s) her eggs. Toads do this, as well.
To the casual observer, it certainly would look like like these frogs were some sort of Siammese triplet-freak. In fact, to remove those males, if they were, indeed, in the midst of mating, would be a difficult task because their hold is so tight and can go on for several hours.
So . . . forget the notion that these are Siamese triplets! They're not even conjoined in the way they would be if they really were a freak of nature.
Clear debunking of the frog photos here :)
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Did they name it Blinky?
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Well, there goes my goddamned lunch. Shoulda read the subtitle first.
Don't put salt in your eyes.
....so this is what happens when a pig and a frog do the nasty?
I find it really sad that they're just going to keep it around living like this. I mean, I feel bad about killing it, but I think that it needs to be done. How can a creature with three heads and six legs like that thing, in the way it is put together, possibly have a comfortable life - even for a frog? It just looks confusing and painful and a terrible existance. It seems the humane thing to do would be to euthanize it..
...you can hear them say "Bud-," "-weis-," "-er.'
Yoda of Borg am I! Assimilated shall you be! Futile resistance is, hmm?
The only question to ask is whether science.slashdot.org has turned into Fark's "Strange" section, or whether it's Fark's photoshop contests.
Is this in the Lake District, where you get all the radioactive Rain from the Irish Sea?
There's this Nuke Refurbishing plant that dumps lots of radioactive junk into the Irish Sea in Shellafield (sp? geo?), so the Irish Sea is full of it, and Cancer rates along the Beaches have gone way up. Any connection, anyone?
Does it have three brains, the sets of other inards? Lets cut thtat froggy open and find out.
SuDZ
Relax, everyone, it's just the beta for Frogger 3.0.
~UP
Eat the Path.
I'm not exactly the squeamish type, but that kinda made me a bit queasy. Please be warned - this appears to be an odd fusion of three frogs.
This sig no verb.
Miss Piggy and Kermie went to California last week and got married. Don't knock alternative lifestyles until you've tried it. In this case, a little "pig in the blanket" if you know what I mean.
Where do you want to go today?
Is a whole other question!
"Can there be a Klein bottle that is an efficient and effective beer pitcher?"
It just looks like a big pile of frog parts, all mashed together!
It's not a hoax, there really are three heads and most of three bodies merged on that animal... but only two forelegs but I was unable to determine exactly how many rear legs there were... but then again frog's bums don't exactly appeal to me either...
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
Sure looks to me like the more common 2-headed frog sitting on top of the ususal 1-headed model...note all the extra feet/legs.
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I saw an episode of the x-files...Where UFO radiation caused anything touching to become one thing when it flew over them. There was a lizard with it's head stuck in a rock, a gas station attendant got stuck to the floor. The funniest though was a couple of horny teenagers that got their heads entangled while making out.
The picture looks more like 3 frogs got 'stuck' together rather than a frog with 3 heads.
/^([Ss]ame [Bb]at (time, |channel.)){2}$/
...how many asses does it have?
that simpons episode with the radioactive 3 eyed fish.
If this isn't a hoax (it's not April 1st yet), it's quite amazing that the frog has lived as long as it has. That frog is lucky, I tell ya.
assert(expired(knowledge));
Is this the frog that guards the gates of Hades? No, that's three-headed dog.
Maybe this is the guy who guards the gates of Froggy-Hell!!!
Those who can, do. Those who can't, simulate.
Obviously we're very close to the entry of Amphibian Hell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus.
Be on the lookout for a Newt called Heracles!
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One more location that I won't drink the water. Two heads is enough for me.
Frogs are more sensitive to environmental pollutants and toxins because they're able to absorb many of them directly through their skin. They're developmentally simple animals so mutations show up more easily in their external morphology. Interestingly, since frogs eggs are separate cells and the membrane (which also absorbs toxins) would probably prevent three developmental frogs from sticking, this is one frog that has developed three frogs - not some sort of conjoined twin thing. (Although the difference there is a matter of degree, not kind.)
This is the most dramatic example of what I've seen yet but frog mutations are extremely common. Check out this, or this (warning more gross pics). Does anyone but me wonder why we tolerate this level of contamination in our environment? I'm not a Green but I do object to being poisoned for some companies bottom line.
When there are a few hundred documented cases of this it's time to be alarmed. Here, it looks like a few eggs failed to adequately separate. I doubt the frogs even have the same DNA. The fact that their pond was 2-3 Kelvin warmer than it would have been 50 years ago has nothing to do with this freak occurance.
You'll see these suckers in tanks in French restaurants like seafood places have lobsters. Oo-la-la! Ze Seks leg'ed frog!
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nature didn't remember the game well...
it's supposed to be a three headed MONKEY
does that mean you need 3 bicycle pumps to inflate it then?..
SURELY NOT!!!!!
Yes, but does it have five asses?!
What did it look like when it was a tadpole?
Frogs world-wide finally got their revenge when 3-headed humans were sighted hopping through a garden near Chernobyl.
Bat-Boy has been photographed out on the town with Lisa-Marie!
Hm.
Well, two-headed snakes are not all that exceedingly rare. I've not heard of three-headed reptiles or amphibians, but I have seen frogs with six or more legs, had a friend who was born with a six fingers on each hand, and once had a pet cat with three extra paws. The system seems pretty well written, but there are still some bugs.
Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachtani?
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I could imagine....
"Oh no! We're STUCK!"
No cause have been found for those frogs in MN, other than random mutation. There is no more or less polution in that area then other places where frogs live normally. The mutation doesn't strongly stop the ability of frogs to breed, so you get more of them.
If this was a different discussion you would call them proff of evolution.
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>I'm not a Green but I do object to being poisoned for some companies bottom line.
:)
Err, I think you summarized the entire Green platform with that last bit. Beware, due to pollution and toxins, you might mutate into a Green, oh no!
Myself, I'm not a libertarian, I just want less government. I'm not a republican, I just want lower taxes. I'm not a democrat, I just want a lower debt. And I'm not an anarchist, I just post to slashdot occassionally
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Wonder if you get a bonus if you lick that frog.
The photo is fake. The news article says that some people saw it but it got away. So they are merely going on what a few people said and now they are showing a fake frog picture to "prove" it. They're currently "looking" for the frog that was spoken of.
Fishy?
Doesn't anybody remember this hoax which turned out to be pretty much the same thing? Here is a good discussion of the issue
She turned me into a NEWT!
I bet Steve Balmer is jealous: 3 big mouths and good legs for jumping around.
DNA is the ultimate spaghetti code.
This is truly freaky!
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They Are Vermin Feeding On Each Other's Feces.
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It's a set of congenital ("Siamese") triplet frogs. I saw the media describe a pair of human siamese twins that way pretty recently too (two-headed child or something to that effect). I couldn't help thinking how offended I would be if (hypothetically speaking) my Siamese-twin brother and I were collectively referred to as a single two-headed person. But then, I doubt the frogs care.
Clearly, somebody's having BrundleFly issues.
This is /. You're not supposed to RTFA.
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Is that you?
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Table-ized A.I.
Why were the shocked? It is uncommon, but not unknown. .
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The gradual accumulation of pollutants in the enviroment probablly explains why there appears to be more mentally deranged people (extreem terrorism etc), just look at the fact that the coal burning plants (just in the US), produce 46 tons of mercury per year.....all that toxic stuff has to go somewhere...perhaps those veggies you had for dinner had some small dose of mercury, for instance, some pople are very sensitive to mercury and after getting enough over a long period of time tend to go nuts and also suffer from cancer etc....another source of mercury is that each flourescent light (street lights too) has about 1 drop of mercury in each bulb...it's not only the whales and fishes that have a toxic load in their fat cells, people do too (i also read an article that old people really have accumulated quite a toxic mix of chemicals in their fat...mabey that explains why really old people (when they get really old and loose their body fat) tend to be a bit nuts....I also read that by the middle of this century, about 1/2 of males and females will get cancer...I think it't time to stop feeding the world-wide war machines and to instead put lots of money into biotech and nonotech and clean up the eviroment and do cool things like life-extention and better health.
Actually it has 6 heads if it has 3 penis'
It is very possible that the three headed frog is actually three separate frogs. The one on the bottom would be a female and the two on her back would be males. This how frogs mate. The two male frogs are simply holding onto the female, waiting for her lay her eggs. Once she does that, they will fertilize the eggs. Usually, only one male frog gets to do the honors, but in this case there were two. Maybe they were buddies.
Darn me! PeeGeeDee, you're the only person here talking sanity! This is simply a case of "multiple amplexus": two male frogs gripping a female, as sometimes happens with horny frogs. Look at the picture; the central frog is a different colour, dammit. You don't get conjoined non-identical individuals. Do a Google image search on "amplexus" to convince yourselves that frogs clinging on the backs of other frogs is commonplace. They cling very tightly, and with frogs being squashy, it's often hard to see the join. Note also a 2002 Massachusetts newspaper item where, similarly, some family thought a mating pair of toads was a two-headed toad before a herpetologist pointed out the stupidity. Get real - and check out here for a few links I collated.
After living in this crudhole of Weston for so many years, I can guarantee that this frog exists and is no hoax. I saw it! It buggered off though after a while, perhaps to eat all our children.
So, yes, it's certainly not a hoax, and it looks quite well attached together as one. I obviously didn't get too close, it's freaky.
It wouldn't bump its asses when it hopped.
Unknown host pong.
I took the liberty of not reading the majority of previous posts, but this didn't seem like that big of a deal to me.
:)
When someone first (belatedly) spoke of a three headed frog on IRC I assumed they meant a three headed parasitic twin type affair (ie. two useless heads growing out of a frog) but it seems more like siamese triplets to me. I mean, I'm more a tech geek than a science one, but don't most people cover thant kind of stuff in high school? Incorrectly separated embryos and all that.
Incidentally, I'm terrified of both frogs (in general) and parasitic twins (mostly because we had a frog with two legs growing out of it's head in year 8 science class) so I'm gonna have fun sleeping tonight.
It's not so much a 3 headed frog as it is 3 frogs stuck together. Frogs lay a "gob-o-eggs" which stick together for a while (presumably to make them easier to fertilize) then drift apart after fertilization (presumably to make it more difficult for something to eat ALL of them). Aparently something, either chance or environment, made 3 of these eggs stick together. Frogs are pretty simple critters so things that might kill some other critter doesn't kill a frog. So it's not that frogs are really more prone to this sort of thing as much as it is that damaged frogs are more likely to survive.
Being a frog like that might not be all that bad to some people. Dates automatically qualify as orgies. Heck, even masturbation could be an orgie... Oh I feel so sick right now.
After really do a whole bunch of research on this (believe me!), I've come to the conclusion that my hunch that the "three headed frog" is actually three separate frogs is correct. First, the article says that the little kids lost their frog(s). Evidently, after much searching, the frog(s) cannot be found. No scientist actually examined the frog(s), either. There were just a few still pictures taken of the frog(s). It is much more highly probable that these are three separate frogs -- a female on the bottom with two males holding onto her, side by side. This, actually, is not unusual and happens very often. In my studies of amphibians, I have actually had male frogs grab my hand and hang on like that (They sure liked my hand!). You'd be amazed at how tightly they will grip you! In the wild they will hold onto the female and tightly grip her until she lays her eggs in the water. It is at that time that the male(s) fertilize(s) her eggs. Toads do this, as well. To the casual observer, it certainly would look like like these frogs were some sort of Siammese triplet-freak. In fact, to remove those males, if they were, indeed, in the midst of mating, would be a difficult task because their hold is so tight and can go on for several hours. So . . . forget the notion that these are Siamese triplets! They're not even conjoined in the way they would be if they really were a freak of nature.
http://www.raygirvan.co.uk/apoth/trifrog.htm
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