Exploding Toads

I wake up up to read some news on the net , And i'm greeted with this?
All these weird deaths are happening in the Altona Region of Hamburg. there isn't really much information on this right now. they don't know if its cause is viral, bacterial or evan fungal.

BERLIN (AFP) - Hundreds of toads have met a bizarre and sinister end in Germany in recent days, it was reported: they exploded.

According to reports from animal welfare workers and veterinarians as many as a thousand of the amphibians have perished after their bodies swelled to bursting point and their entrails were propelled for up to a metre (three feet).

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