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 ;) RE: Foreign (clawed) Frogs Frighten San FranForeign Frogs Frighten San FranForeign Frogs Frighten San Fran |