Frogs are amazing

Michaelangelica · #1 (**permalink**) 08-03-2006

Frogs are amazing

Here is just one of many examples.
(Can we add others?)
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1705318.htm

Frog Glue

Reporter: Maryke Steffens
Producer: Gabrielle Betteridge
Researcher: Maryke Steffens & Gabrielle Betteridge

Transcript

3 August 2006

Quote:

Deep in the outback, far underground, lives a small frog that could soon be hopping its way into surgical theatres around the country.
The Holy Cross frog secretes a sticky substance from its back that orthopaedic surgeons are excited about – could it be used as a medical adhesive for muscular skeletal injuries?
The frog normally uses this glue to ensnare biting insects for food, but researchers have discovered that it’s stronger than any non-toxic medical adhesive on the market.

learnin to learn · #2 (**permalink**) 08-03-2006

Frogs are amazing creatures. They are a great example of adapting to ones environment! What I think is amazing is they can become asexual if they need to! Just imagine if women could become asexual, us guys would be out of business!

Mercedes Benzene · #3 (**permalink**) 08-03-2006

Maybe you should post about them in the "cool animals" thread.

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InfiniteNow · #4 (**permalink**) 08-03-2006

I like 'em too. A little bit of olive oil and cayenne, but really, chicken will do when you're in a pinch and the guests arrive early.

learnin to learn · #5 (**permalink**) 08-03-2006

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Originally Posted by InfiniteNow

I like 'em too. A little bit of olive oil and cayenne, but really, chicken will do when you're in a pinch and the guests arrive early.

that is true!!!!

orbsycli · #6 (**permalink**) 08-03-2006

I'm convinced that earth isn't the only place in the universe where amphibians exist.

learnin to learn · #7 (**permalink**) 08-03-2006

I would not doubt it!

Turtle · #8 (**permalink**) 08-03-2006

I have hunted & eaten hundreds of bullfrogs and per se, their legs, for more decades than I care to recount. Contrary to popular myth, they don't taste like chicken! they taste like fish & have the texture of chicken.

My most unusual frog encounter involves actually the tadpole of a rare frog. Being the only frog tadpole species to have a "sucker-like" mouth, I mistook them for leaches when I encountered them on the Green Fork River in the Gifford Pinchot national Forest in Washington State USA in the year of 1,992 years before the common era. I have since learned they develop into the rare Tailed Frog which inhabits a narrow band of territory extending along the Pacific NW regions of British Columbia & the United States.
I visited the area recently on a scientific Sasquath expedition, however I saw no tadpoles in the Green Fork; likely too early in the season as my previous sighting occured in July.