Injured frog airlifted to hospital after lawnmower accident

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Woman hops to it after injuring frog

An Australian woman has gone to extraordinary lengths to save a green tree frog. Min Tims from the remote mining town of Mount Isa, Queensland, accidentally ran over the amphibian with her lawnmower. Desperate to save the animal, she contacted Deborah Pergolotti, the president of Frog Safe frog hospital, 800 miles away in Cairns, and they organised for it to be flown to the hospital. Tims and her niece tended to the frog's wounds and packaged it up for the flight. The frog is expected to make a full recovery.

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Seattle salmon 'full of drugs'

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