Mysterious Rain Of Tadpoles Hits Shizuoka, Hiroshima
17/06/2009 04:20
Yet more tadpoles
that appear to have fallen out of the sky have
been found, continuing a string of incidents
that began in Ishikawa Prefecture in early
June.Some 40 desiccated frogs and tadpoles were found at the tennis court of a girls' junior high and high school in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, early Saturday morning by biology teacher Yuji Ota. Most of the amphibians were crushed, perhaps by the fall to earth, but a few remained intact and still smelled raw.
According to Ota, there is a pond on the school grounds that is frequented by herons, which "eat tadpoles, and may have regurgitated them when in the air."
Meanwhile, a 60-year-old housewife in Miyoshi, Hiroshima Prefecture, discovered 13 tadpoles and one frog in about a 20 meter span in a parking lot neighboring her garden on Monday morning.
SINC SAYS:
I thought it only rained fish? Frogs are a new one on me.
