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posted April 01, 2008 09:15 AM         

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Mouse Rides Frog in India Monsoon

July 5, 2006—It could be the most spirited interspecies escape since The Rescuers. But unlike the 1977 Disney movie, this situation is anything but fun.

Photographed Friday in the northern Indian city of Lucknow (India map), a mouse perches on a frog in waist-deep (for a frog, anyway) floodwaters—a small sign of the early arrival of annual summer monsoon rains.

So far, more than 30 people have died in India as a result of this year's monsoon-driven landslides and floods. Last year's deluge killed some 1,000 people in the financial center of Mumbai (Bombay) alone. Today polluted, knee-deep waters are raising fears of a repeat disaster among the city's roughly 17 million inhabitants.

In drought-stricken areas, too, frogs were playing the role of rescuer.

According to the Indo-Asian News Service, some rural Indians are holding frog weddings in the hopes that the amphibians' bliss will inspire farm-saving storms. After marking the bride and groom with vermillion and turmeric—traditional adornments in human Hindu nuptials—villagers take the supposedly happy couple to a nearby pond to honeymoon.

"If we get the frogs wedded, the Varuna, the god of the oceans, will bless us with rains," Beni Prasad, a farmer in the village of Khapa, told the news service on Sunday.

—Ted Chamberlain
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/07/060705-mouse-frog.html

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posted April 01, 2008 09:35 AM         

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Cute pictures:

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posted April 01, 2008 09:36 AM         

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Rats and mice are some of the most misunderstood animals in the world.

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posted April 01, 2008 06:08 PM         

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Awww how C-uuuuute! Why walk when you can ride?

A couple years ago we had a mice problem here at our office. The building was not sealed off well and they managed to sneak their way in and throw party after party in here. There were quite a few that I rescued from the traps or rescued before they made it to the traps. I would walk outside, a good ways away from our building and release them. Since we sealed the building, we've not had a problem with them. I use to have a couple mice as pets when I was younger, Max and Dio

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posted April 01, 2008 11:17 PM         

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I am going to that frog and watch him turn into...............

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posted April 02, 2008 05:39 AM         

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angel_of_hope

Nephthys....frogs are cute....lol

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posted April 05, 2008 09:45 AM         

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posted April 09, 2008 01:52 PM         

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GIDDYUP!

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posted April 11, 2008 08:28 AM         

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Yee haw!

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