April 25, 2005
Nocturnal explosions
In case the delicious beer and sausage weren't reason enough to plan your trip to Germany, maybe the unique wildlife will convince you.
"I have never seen such a thing," said veterinarian Otto Horst. So bad has the death toll been that the lake in the Altona district of Hamburg has been dubbed "the pond of death."
Access to it has been sealed off and every night a biologist visits it between 2:00 and 3:00 am, which appears to be peak time for batrachians to go bang."
posted by CheekyMonkey at 01:30 PM
