But on the inside it had large testis, so these are testis, and this is an oviduct. HAYES: This is an animal that looked like a female on the outside. But Hayes’ research showed that atrazine exposure made these frogs 7 times more prone to homosexual behavior and10 percent of the exposed frogs actually became feminized.ĪHERN: To explain what he meant by “feminized” Hayes brought me back to his office and pulled up a picture on his laptop of a frog that had been exposed to the herbicide. HAYES: So what you can see is that there’s a seven-fold difference in the atrazine treated animals.ĪHEARN: Homosexual behavior has been recorded in over 450 different species of animals – from bison to beetles. He exposed some of his frogs to the same level of atrazine that the Environmental Protection Agency says is safe for drinking water, and he kept the rest of the frogs atrazine-free. Once Hayes heard about this he started collecting data. This for example is one that has lots of gay males, homosexual pairs in it because it’s a treated tank.ĪHEARN: One morning when one of Hayes’ PhD students came in to feed the specimens at 7 AM she noticed some male-on-male copulation going on in a tank that had been treated with atrazine – the second most commonly used herbicide in the U.S. HAYES: So in this tank there are 40 brothers that are not exposed to atrazine and in this tank there are 40 brothers who were exposed to atrazine and so we can compare these two tubs and look at the number of homosexual pairs. Below the surface, fat greenish-yellow frogs swim around– their bulging eyes looking up at us through the water.
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HAYES: So these are the South African Claw frog.ĪHEARN: Tyrone Hayes peers into a large gray fiberglass tank like a little boy looking for critters in a tide pool. And they may be affecting our reproductive health – indeed, even our sexual preferences. They eventually make their way from our farms, households or industry into the environment – and into our bodies. We use synthetic chemicals for everything from plastics to pesticides. From the carpets in our living rooms to the liners of our canned goods we’re exposed to manmade chemicals every day. And the brothers Flemion have found a way not only to keep it, but to improve upon it musically.CURWOOD: It’s Living on Earth, I’m Steve Curwood. And jeepers! There's even a Bob Dylan cover: "Billy."Īs treasured irritants go, the Frogs have earned an indie cred that most bands would kill for.
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"Better than God" offers motivation therapy, while a delightfully egotistic "Enter I" might have you double-taking for Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices. Heartfelt ballads such as "The Longing Goes Away" and "Bad Mommy" shimmer with great beauty even over-the-top numbers like "Nipple Clamps" somehow manage to locate enormous feeling despite any willful jocularity: It's Ray Davies by way of Bob Crane. With lyrics elevated above mere crudeness (consult Matador's 1996 release, My Daughter the Broad, for their most raunchy batch), the two have reached a maturation point that now employs orchestral arrangements to soften their honest contempt for everything under the sun.īecause the Frogs let younger brother Jimmy handle vocals this go-round, any stigma they hold as a one-joke band can finally be dissolved for good. They blend muted drums, toy pianos, harps, horns, strings and a raft of acoustic guitars into lush and engaging tapestries. With customarily savage humor, the Froggies pool from their strum-happier sides for a solid collection of pastoral folk rock. The pair's first, full-throttle, studio-recorded album gives plenty of reason to uncork some champagneski in the name of all things perverted.
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And with a huge, unreleased backlog of "made-up songs" (enough to rival both Ween and New Zealand's Tall Dwarves), this Milwaukee-based twosome inspires curiosity every time it avails itself to the listening public. As alleged "gay supremacists" who once rattled the cage of underground music with 1989's cult classic It's Only Right and Natural, Dennis and Jimmy Flemion have gone beyond telling the world, "We are homos, hear us roar." Racially Yours found them singing about ethnic tension - with one brother in blackface, the other in whiteface - in an attempt to shock members of both polarized tribes.