Making the leap to love

STOCKHOLM – Love-hungry frogs in a southwestern Swedish town risk their lives daily crossing a busy road to reach their mating pond, but concerned officials are now building a special tunnel for them.

The 150-metre tunnel under road 161 outside Uddevalla is also expected to be used by water salamanders who mate in the Jaernkleve pond, Swedish news agency TT said. Until now, the frogs and salamanders have been guided to plastic buckets along the roadside, where officials have collected the buckets several times a day and carried them across the road so they could either mate or return home.But the love line-up proved not so popular, neither among the frogs nor their carers, and so the Swedish National Road Administration agreed to the tunnel.- Nampa-AFPUntil now, the frogs and salamanders have been guided to plastic buckets along the roadside, where officials have collected the buckets several times a day and carried them across the road so they could either mate or return home. But the love line-up proved not so popular, neither among the frogs nor their carers, and so the Swedish National Road Administration agreed to the tunnel. – Nampa-AFP