FROGS

Hinkly Dinkly Reporting

With mind bogging gender news.

Today’s headline
POLLUTANTS CHANGE 'HE' FROGS INTO 'SHE' FROGS

PARIS (AFP) - Frogs that started life as males were changed into females by estrogen-like pollutants similar to those found in the environment, according to a new study.

In a laboratory at Uppsala University in Sweden, two species of male frogs were exposed to levels of estrogen similar to those detected in natural bodies of water in Europe, The United States, and Canada.

The population of the two groups receiving the heaviest dose of estrogen became 95 percent female in one case, and 100 percent in the other.

"If all the frogs become female it could have a detrimental effect on the population," she the leader of the experiment with a penchant for pinning down the obvious, said.

As expected Professor Penwose was alarmed by the news and instantly leaped ahead with frog experiments of his own.

“I placed several frogs together in a beaker environment and immediately realized I could not identify males from females. They looked the same to me. My Big Book of Frogs informed me that male frogs “Croak” and females do not.

I found this absolutely astonishing!

I knew what it meant to "croak" due to my early days in Slangdom, however I would go no further until addressing Webster. As expected, the definition was as I expected..."buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, drop dead!"

Utterly Remarkable! Male frogs would "Drop dead" while females apparently live forever. I had neither the time nor desire to sit around waiting for the events to happen, so I decided to distinguish their sexes by other determining factors. Being a scientist I decided to do it scientifically.

I had them partake in a game of Leapfrog. Not unlike the human species, the frolicking that resulted made the two sexes easily distinguishable.

After dousing them with water, I separated the males from the females and dropped two of them into the polluted swamp behind my home. When I returned them to their former piers they immediately began to “nag” them.

Not fully convinced, I dropped the remaining males into the swamp and realized an astonishing fact upon their retrieval.

Before going into the putrid water they drank Budweiser. After pulling them out they preferred Chardonnay.”

Hinkly Out!
By George