Ewwww….this three headed mutation is apparently a harbinger of environmental damage, although the idea of it hopping around in my garden is likely to cause psychological damage on my part…..has anyone come across anything like this in the wild before? And are we looking at another ‘blinky the three eyed fish’ phenomenon from The Simpsons……?
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Being as I already have a serious frog/toad phobia, I think that thing would give me serious psychological damage.
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Looks like conjoined frog triplets. I wonder if the thing has an easy time getting about and getting food? I'm actually surprised it lived through the tadpole stage! Actually can you really refer to it as one toad? Looks like it's three stuck together more than just one toad with extra heads and limbs.
I've always thought frogs and toads were cute.
(Edited because "triple-conjoined frog twins" makes absolutely no sense.)
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I'm currently studying frog development, so no doubt this will get a mention in lectures tommorrow - yes, I have Saturday lectures. I'm aware of two headded mutants, when the dorsal ventral axis fails, but that leads to inviable embryos IIRC. I think I'd have to go with a process similar to conjoined twins, although it certainly is curious, and I'm sure I'll have a better understanding of it in just over a week when we finish the course.
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Cool! I hope that's not photoshopped... but in a way I do... I want one for my amphibian tank.
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I was going to say it looked more like frog triplets joined at the hip, but I was beat to the punch. Oh well.
A lot of mutated frogs like this were found sometime around... I want to say 1997-1999, but I'm not sure those are the entirely accurate dates. Maybe it's a cycle?
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I dont think theres nothing weird of a 3 headed mutated frog. I have heard of 2 headed turtles. and even snakes.
wait a minute, 2 headed only. Yep, that picture of the 3 headed frog is a fake. It may be an illusion. Maybe 3 seperate frogs got together and combined into this weird thing that looks like a 3 headed frog, but they are probably 3 individual frogs either stuck to eachother by crazy glue, or they got together because they had seperation anxiety.
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quote:Originally posted by alexkidd86: wait a minute, 2 headed only. Yep, that picture of the 3 headed frog is a fake. It may be an illusion. Maybe 3 seperate frogs got together and combined into this weird thing that looks like a 3 headed frog, but they are probably 3 individual frogs either stuck to eachother by crazy glue, or they got together because they had seperation anxiety.
I'm sorry that is incorrect. The correct answer is true.
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I've heard frogs can regrow legs that are wounded or cut off. It sounds improbable to me, but can anyone else verify it? I'm just wondering if somehow three frogs were wounded and somehow healed together? Sort of like grafting trees together?
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salamanders and newts can regenerate limbs (in fact, my newt is growing a new leg right now!) But I've never heard of frogs doing so. I think blood types and DNA would prevent several individuals from healing together. Plus, I can't see them getting together and staying there to heal. to me, the photo looks like 2 males struggling for a female - and then someone blended it together. However, after seeing the pics 24k Katezilla linked to, it seems like it's real. Yikes! There have been lots of reports of mutated frogs, but those have only been for extra legs, etc. This is astounding.
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Oh my! At first I thought that was a little froggy threesome!
Seriously, Collecting freak animal specimens has been a popular hobby as well as a legitimate scientific activity for a very long time. IIRC, the Victorians were especially fond of this kind of thing.
Just because I never saw one before does not mean they never happened or they are only happening now because of toxics dumped in the environment. Remember, more and more natural habitats are being eliminated for many animals, and there are fewer places for critters to hide.
James G: Is there actually any documented rise in occurence, or are people just assuming there are more of these because they never saw them before?
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I wonder if anyone is going to volunteer to pay for the frogs to be separated?
Yeah yeah I know...
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England seems to have a history of three-headed beings!
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The place (Weston-Super-Mare) they found that.....thing.... is just down the road from me. It's well known for harboring mutants. The human kind.
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Well my course is mainly focusing on developmental mutations caused in the lab, in order to help understand then process better. I'm not an authority on the subject but I'm not aware of any overall rises in mutation rates, however I have heard of a number of cases where mutagens have found their way into rivers/lakes etc. Although having said that Google turned up very few studies.
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drats! frog hoax ménage a trois this is just multiple amplexus (aka a mating ball), typical frog and toad mating behaviour.
well folks, even the BBC got trouted!
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