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Backstory:
<span style="font-style: italic">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. </span>
<span style="font-style: italic">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. </span>
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Nice summary story Scott, Thanks!
I've seen a few videos of the "frog" weddings
in India but did not know the history behind the custom.
Thanks for the history lesson.
With all our own monsoons here on the island;
maybe I'll suggest have a few coqui frogs get hitched.
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I've seen a few videos of the "frog" weddings
in India but did not know the history behind the custom.
Thanks for the history lesson.
With all our own monsoons here on the island;
maybe I'll suggest have a few coqui frogs get hitched.
Dale(Tinster)
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What is in that 2nd photo? A green frog & what?
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tony barnhill said:
A mouse doing a gullet exam !!!
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aerog said:
...O.K, now I've heard eveything...
out of respect for EVERYONE, I'll spare the "material" that I have on this...
(oh, but to have to pass on this is KILLING ME, but I'm SURE it'll stir up trouble.)
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Tinster said:All God's creatures:
....imagine tha bass you could catch with that rig !!!!
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DNK said:
I'm not from here and I don't think Red Fish or Speckle Trout like the double frog/mouse rig. They do like the double shad rig though !!!!
(parents met on lake Ponchartrain, I'm saltwater guy, but my grandmother lives on fresh water. Actually I can do/did both but prefer salt......DEEP cold, blue salty water. Tuna and Wahoo to be exact. I don't care too much fer perch jerkin'. I do like shaftin' them w/ a bow though!)
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kellysguy said:
<span style="color: #990000">A 100# yellow fin tuna om a skirted ballyhoo
and ya think ya hooked a nuclear submarine. Those boys will
just about pull you overboard they pull so strong. I fish
tuna, mahi mahi, wahoo, snook and tarpon. Hoping to go out today.
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& I'll bet you threw it back in!
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We carry soy and Wasabi on board for just such creatures !!!
Yeah....into the ice chest !!!!!!
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Yeah....into the ice chest !!!!!!