Frog Species Discovered Living In Elephant Dung 56
rhettb writes "Three different species of frogs have been discovered living in the dung of the Asian elephant in southeastern Sri Lanka. The discovery — the first time anyone has recorded frogs living in elephant droppings — has widespread conservation implications both for frogs and Asian elephants, which are in decline. Apparently the frogs feed on the many invertebrates present in elephant dung."
hrmm (Score:1)
Re:hrmm (Score:5, Funny)
That's less scary than "All Hail our amphibious elephant eating dung overlords".
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Fixed that for you.
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Shit!
Oh! (Score:5, Funny)
So, it's not, "Oh, shit!" but rather "Oh! Shit."
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Also, some of it is bull shit, not bullshit.
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Frogs Species Discovered Living In Elephant Dung
You call that living? ..and now to top it all off they have to deal with paparazzi? What a crappy deal.
the first time anyone has recorded frogs living in elephant droppings
There could be a reason for that...
frogs and Asian elephants, which are in decline.
So they're BOTH in deep shit?
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the first time anyone has recorded frogs living in elephant droppings
There could be a reason for that...
I guarantee you that the feces of the Asian Elephant has been studied somewhat intensively, at least on occasion. Apparently, however, it has not also been studied repeatedly... and in situ.
Re:Oh! (Score:4, Interesting)
Frogs Species Discovered Living In Elephant Dung
You call that living? ..and now to top it all off they have to deal with paparazzi? What a crappy deal.
the first time anyone has recorded frogs living in elephant droppings
There could be a reason for that...
frogs and Asian elephants, which are in decline.
So they're BOTH in deep shit?
No actually, the shit is declining too. It should be much deeper.
Re:Oh! (Score:5, Funny)
Reincarnation has created a special place for the neo-conservatives..
Oblig Joke (Score:5, Funny)
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Anonymous Coward? Looking above, I see the name 'Anonymous Cowardon'. The coders seem to have missed a space after the variable.
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I'm sure your girlfriend found this sooo funny.
Girlfriend? I'm on /., you insensitive clod!
one word (Score:1)
The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka? (Score:1)
Someone had to mention it [southparkstudios.com].
Well . . . (Score:2)
Next you'll have cats and dogs living together.
Oh, wait . . .
Oblig. (Score:5, Funny)
A Fable: The Frog and the Elephant (Score:5, Funny)
Once upon a time, there was a little frog who lived at the zoo.
One spring morning, the little frog was hopping through the elephant exhibit, but a bout of freezing rain had made the cage all slippery, and the little frog found himself buried up to his neck in ice.
Stuck in the ice and slowly freezing to death, the little frog looked up, just an instant before the elephant shat all over him. "Ribbit! Elephant, you bastard! You just shat all over me!", croaked the little frog.
But the elephant dung was warm and kept the little frog alive, not only melting the ice, but also attracting the flies, and the frog ate his fill. "Ribbit! We're cool, Elephant! Thanks for the warm dung and the tasty flies!", croaked the little frog.
A Canada Goose, returning home from a winter in the south, heard the commotion, and swooped down next to the little frog. It used its bill to carefully clear away all of the elephant dung, and then gently picked the little frog up out of the pile of elephant poop.
And then the goose ate him alive.
Moral of the story:
1) Everyone who shits on you is not necessarily your enemy.
2) Everyone who digs you out of shit is not necessarily your friend.
3) If you're warm and happy in a pile of shit, keep your big mouth shut!
- after The Sparrow
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3) If you're warm and happy in a pile of shit, keep your big mouth shut!
That's what all of Walls Street thought ... next thing they knew their warm pile of shit blew up in their faces.
Go for the big one (Score:5, Funny)
Who gives a crap? (Score:1)
I mean really. They're frogs. Possibly their aesthetics are slightly different from ours?
No, no, no... (Score:2)
The elephants DONATE the crap. Frogs "give a crap" about the donated crap.
There, I believe that clears up that question. Next?
Dung story next to "World Copyright Summit" story. (Score:5, Funny)
when they find parasitical vampire frogs (Score:2)
swimming around in a living elephant's circulatory system, then i'll be impressed
but as they say in alabama: "a frog in shit ain't nothing but a frog in shit", or something to that effect
In related news... (Score:2, Insightful)
I smell an Ignoble (Score:2)
"Because it's there." A reminder that you never ask a scientist "why?"
Elephant says to frog: (Score:3, Funny)
The headline alone... (Score:2)
...describes my employer pretty accurately.
Wow... (Score:2)
Story summary (Score:3, Funny)
Bright Idea? (Score:2, Interesting)
"Oh, hey! Frogs! Ok, now who is gonna pick them out.?"
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What are you looking for when you go digging through a big steaming pile of elephant dung.
The wristwatch you lost while taking the elephant's temperature?
Blame (Score:2)
Elephant A: Damn frogs