Mother Nature is always playing her tricks–some of them quite
cruel–on the creatures borne under her eternal reign.
We have seen two-headed calves, cows, cats and rabbits, and even
people with double faces and various appendages.
Although considered rare, it is even more unusual to see
additional appendages on amphibians, particularly frogs
After a chef in China spotted the extra leg on the bullfrog
pictured above, he spared the creature from becoming a culinary
specialty appetizer.
Eating frogs is an everyday occurrence in China. Frog leg soup
is considered to be a food of power that helps to strengthen one’s
bones.
Oddly, the extra leg on the frog, which was oily and black and
stuck out at an angle from the rest of its body, wasn’t originally
noticed as it became part of a wholesale batch of frogs crammed
together at a local food market.
Today this lucky bullfrog resides in a zoo in Zhuzhou,
China.
Five-legged frogs are very rare, but have been discovered
before, both in England and America. Why the frog developed the
additional limb remains a mystery. It could be a simple mutation,
although some experts believe that the cause could be a parasite or
the result of pollution.