IconoclasT wrote:
] Ok, I've heard of great horny toads but clawed frogs?
]
] The African Clawed Frog is kept as a pet in some states but
] it is banned in California because it competes with and
] consumes native species.
]
] "They are really hard to pick up because they're very
] slippery," said Ken Howell, Asst. Curator, California Academy
] of Sciences. "And if you look at the back you and see the
] claws -- the three claws on the back there."
]
] Nobody knows how the outlawed amphibians got into the lily
] pond but they have reproduced wildly threatening to wipe out
] most everything else.
Wow somebody needs a manicure in a bad way ;)