Hi all,

I have lots of doubts when one is calling toads as 'earthquake predictors'.

This time of year (March-April) animals like toads and frogs wake up from 
their wintersleep and travel to their 'ideal spot' to meet females and to 
lay eggs. Toads wake up from their wintersleep when the temperature rises 
suddenly during spring. This lasts a couple of days and it doesn't matter 
when the weather is getting a little wintry afterwards (I have seen toads in 
my own garden during a snow shower in late spring).

In Holland, lots of toads need to cross a road (from one pond to another), 
therefore volunteers help the toads to get them to the other side of roads. 
In my area, last 3 weeks showed an explosive amount of toads on the roads. 
This amount showed an enourmous drop during the last week. In fact, it means 
most male toads have reached their destination, so the amount of 'transfers' 
have dropped. It is typically seasonal.

Cheers,

Marchal
-Oostburg, The Netherlands





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pete Rowe" 
To: 
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: Toad is a telltale for impending quakes


It is quite coincidental that the biologists started the toad experiment 10 
days before the quake. Maybe we should be monitoring biologists instead of 
Toads??
Pete

--- On Wed, 3/31/10, Larry Conklin  wrote:

> From: Larry Conklin 
> Subject: Re: Toad is a telltale for impending quakes
> To: psn-l@..............
> Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2010, 8:52 AM
> Gee, sounds like they're on to
> something. Maybe they could line up a bunch of them
> and build a "toad array".
>
>
> On 3/31/2010 11:48 AM, Dave Saum wrote:
> > http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.66b782894f81ce278978976e97a59e5b.a61&show_article=1
> 
>
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