Frogs leg it under road

30 October 2015 - 02:14 By ©The Daily Telegraph

A French council has spent €65,000 on tunnels to help frogs cross a busy road in Brittany in order to reach ponds where they breed. Despite the Gallic appetite for frogs' legs sautéed in garlic, Vern-sur-Seiche, in Britanny, built five special passages under the D86 road to help prevent the amphibians from becoming roadkill.The road crosses the only route to the ponds from woodlands, where thousands of frogs, some of them protected species, spend much of their lives.An estimated 1,200 frogs and toads were being squashed every year...

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