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It was around 930 at night on a Sunday in 1998.
Yvon Lozano Ortega is at his house in Bogota, Colombia, and he's getting ready to go to sleep when he gets a call.
We are calling from the Bogota International Airport.
I'm with the police, and we just found a bag full of frogs.
A bag full of frogs.
And I said, okay.
The reason they called Ivan is that Yvonne was in charge of Bogota's wildlife rescue center.
It was like this exotic animal orphanage where people would send animals that somebody, for some reason, had taken out of the wild.
We were used to receive a monkey, a parrot and a tortoise.
Yeah, they'd get turtles, monkeys.
One time they even got a bear.
And they were kind of like, uh, okay, yeah, sure, we can handle a bear.
You can feed a bear.
I mean, it's easy to feed a bear.
But they weren't prepared, apparently, for frogs.
And it was a lot of frogs.
The police told them there were like 400.
And I was like, what?
400?