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Escapee pregnancy test frogs colonised Wales for 50 years

Escapee pregnancy test frogs colonised Wales for 50 years

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·September 16, 2025
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culturestate

This story is incredible, I’m fascinated by every aspect of it:

- What decision-making process led to the idea of injecting human urine into a frog in the first place?

- How did the frogs escape? What kind of living and handling conditions are we talking about here?

- Did the bacteria that the government was concerned about make the frogs more susceptible to cold, thus the coincidental die-off at the same time as eradication was to begin?

- Will Welsh clawed frogs be the next species that we thought were gone but had just become better hidden?

I crave a one-hour documentary about this.

tomrod

That was fascinating. Why would the frogs produce eggs? Were the eggs sterile or parthogenic/clones of mum?

prasadjoglekar

That headline confused the heck out of me, but that was an interesting read.

temp0826

Life uh finds a way?

tomrod

Until nature killed it!