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How crows triggered a bizarre exploding toad epidemic

In the spring of 2005, common toads in Germany and Denmark began dying in a violent and highly unusual way. Witnesses ...
The Washington Post

Exploding German Toads Baffle Scientists

BERLIN, April 28 -- More than 1,000 toads have puffed up and exploded in a Hamburg pond in recent weeks, and German scientists have no explanation for it. The pond water has been tested, but its ...