15th April 1997
Evening Standard
A FROG called Yuri is claimed to be the first living creature
to undergo magnetic levitation. Yuri spent 15 minutes suspended
two feet above the ground by a magnetic field, in a laboratory
at Nijmegen University in the Netherlands. Physicist Dr Andre
Geim said the frog had suffered no ill effects. But Michael van
den Boschof the Dutch animal rights group GAIA accused him of
abusing Yuri. Mr van den Bosch said: "Frogs have feelings
too. He was probably suffering in silence. Frogs should get airborne
the natural way - by jumping."
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