Czech Soldiers Give Courting Toads Safe Trips
Reuters
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia —
Courting toads are getting military escorts on visits to their sweethearts in Czechoslovakia.
Soldiers have built special tunnels and barriers across a busy highway in western Bohemia to help hundreds of male toads reach a pond inhabited by females, Rude Pravo newspaper said Saturday. Some soldiers have even carried the toads across the road.
In the past, hundreds of the lusty toads have been crushed by traffic in the annual spring outing to the pond.
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