Mutant golden frogs a sign of good luck?
Four mutant frogs with gold skin and red eyes, found by children in a grassy field in the town of Shimanto in Kochi prefecture, have gone on display at the nearby Shimanto River Gakuyukan science center. According to a center spokesperson who says the golden specimens are highly unusual, the 2.4-centimeter (almost 1-inch) amphibians appear to be black-spotted pond frogs (Pelophylax nigromaculata, a.k.a. Rana nigromaculata) whose skin turned gold because of an albino mutation that prevents the formation of pigment cells. With a run of bad luck that has brought shrinking visitor numbers and a recent theft of 1.25 million yen (about $10,000), the center hopes the golden frogs are a sign of good fortune to come. Oddly, they look sort of like feng shui money frogs (Chan Chu), except that money frogs have three legs.
[Source: Asahi]
hmmm yes i agree
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Are the frogs real? And if they are where could someone probably find these frogs? I like them bcause they are different from other frogs.
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Woah! Those frogs look pretty cool. If they were in the hands of a professional breeder, there could be more of these highly rare gold frogs, since albinism is a recourring trait in genes.
At any rate, these frogs are pretty cool.
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omg those frogs are so cute.
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cool man those frogs are wicked sweet dont kill them or i will kill you
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kool frogs
r they really good luck
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Those frogs are sweet they need to be breeded
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i look for frogs and i found a three legged frog but i want those ones cos there so cute
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cool website!
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These frogs r sick and look gros
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I DONT KNOW IF THESE FROGS ARE GOOD LUCK B CAUSE I NEVER SAW ONE
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highly unusualy for frogs to have the albino genes, expecially these ones, quite interesting
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