POLLUTANTS CHANGE 'HE' FROGS INTO 'SHE' FROGS

Hinkly Dinkly Reporting

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 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.

"Obviously 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.

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 and highly provocative for later studies, but at that moment I was not afforded time enough to sit around and watch them die.

I needed to distinguish their sexes by other determining factors and did so scientifically.

I had them partake in a game of leapfrog. The frolicking that ensued made the two sexes easily distinguishable.

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.
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, like all fine upstanding male frogs. After pulling them out they preferred Chardonnay.”

Male frogs changing into female frogs. What is the world coming to?
Only time will tell.

Hinkly Out!
By George