Mutated frogs!

April 16, 2002 9:34 AM

Mutated frogs! Pesticide is being blamed for giving some frogs multiple sex organs-- sometimes even both male and female.
posted by Kevin Sanders (12 comments total)

"I'm not saying it's safe for humans. I'm not saying its unsafe for humans. All I'm saying is it that it makes hermaphrodites of frogs."

I know there's a clever joke in here, but I'm just too hung over to come up with it.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 9:40 AM on April 16, 2002

Allow me to be the first to say:

Those frogs can go f@#k themselves ;)
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 9:40 AM on April 16, 2002

This was big news in Minnesota back around 1995... The MPCA has spent six years trying to solve it.

A Related article.
posted by MJoachim at 9:53 AM on April 16, 2002

and the process of evolution is now accelerating at an exponential rate... Does this give any credit to the opinions expressed in Ray Kurzweil's Age of Spiritual Machines?
posted by howa2396 at 10:17 AM on April 16, 2002

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has a spiffy Mutant Frog Cam
posted by stefanie at 10:36 AM on April 16, 2002

Toads, too!
posted by agaffin at 11:00 AM on April 16, 2002

And if you wanna learn about frogs and what makes up their lovely little hot bodies, try this thing called FroGuts
posted by wackybrit at 11:30 AM on April 16, 2002

I am going to have to try this! What sort of pesticides should I use to get a mutant frog?
posted by srboisvert at 1:59 PM on April 16, 2002

skallas: thanks for the heads up.
posted by howa2396 at 2:48 PM on April 16, 2002

Huh? There is absolutely nothing about France in that link.
posted by NortonDC at 3:50 PM on April 16, 2002

Sounds like a frog in a creek bed is the new canary in a coalmine.
posted by yonderboy at 3:17 AM on April 17, 2002

There's an excellent film on this situation which will be part of the Media That Matters on-line film festival.
posted by djacobs at 2:28 PM on April 17, 2002