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May 7, 2007
Feel the love
Actually, this doesn't have a thing to do with these ladies. Has more to do with one of the lakes in Wykeham Estate, outside of Pickering in the UK.
Mike Heelis is the manager of the lakes, which are leased for fishing. The other day he's walking along the shoreline when he notices a carp moving along in the warm shallows.
Just about then, a frog jumps from the shore onto the head of the carp, gets a firm grip and starts humping away.
Mr Heelis considers the novelty of the affair as he discovers several other fish undergoing the same ordeal. In fact, some fish have as many as twelve amorous amphibians attached, all cranking away. For a moment, he thought he was in San Francisco.
Mike wasn't being left out either. As he steps into the shallows to rescue one of the fish, frogs latch onto his boots. Along the shore, he can see balls of amphibian males clustered around females. Mike steps out of the lake, shakes off a few errant lovers and takes estimate of the situation.
The carp are being held face down in the mud, their gills held closed. By the time the breeding orgy is over, two thousand fish are dead.
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