Frogs are awesome.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...ouse-frog.html

Quote:

July 5, 2006—It could be the most spirited interspecies escape since The Rescuers. But unlike the 1977 Disney movie, this situation is anything but fun.

Photographed Friday in the northern Indian city of Lucknow (India map), a mouse perches on a frog in waist-deep (for a frog, anyway) floodwaters—a small sign of the early arrival of annual summer monsoon rains.

So far, more than 30 people have died in India as a result of this year's monsoon-driven landslides and floods. Last year's deluge killed some 1,000 people in the financial center of Mumbai (Bombay) alone. Today polluted, knee-deep waters are raising fears of a repeat disaster among the city's roughly 17 million inhabitants.

In drought-stricken areas, too, frogs were playing the role of rescuer.

According to the Indo-Asian News Service, some rural Indians are holding frog weddings in the hopes that the amphibians' bliss will inspire farm-saving storms. After marking the bride and groom with vermillion and turmeric—traditional adornments in human Hindu nuptials—villagers take the supposedly happy couple to a nearby pond to honeymoon.

"If we get the frogs wedded, the Varuna, the god of the oceans, will bless us with rains," Beni Prasad, a farmer in the village of Khapa, told the news service on Sunday.

—Ted Chamberlain

I know this is pretty much old news but ya know what... I'm changing my avatar/sig to the frog set.

Discuss about frogs here. O.o I seen a TINY frog in my hometown (few miles from the swamplands) and this frog is no bigger than a fingernail! O.O'

I had biology course where I had to dissect a frog once. Its doesn't really sicken me as much as the smell did.

But that's about it... o.O My favorite type of frog would be the ones that are so HUGE or the fast ones. They seem to have character. I wonder if anyone had a pet frog...

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Awww how sweet Alice! Awesome that you created a small house for them. Shame they... fried themselves... >.>

And BB, awesome awesome, you had tons of frog experiences I'll bet! So what does it take to raise one? Any advice you can give for any frog first time owner? From what I understand, most frogs do require bits of water to keep themselves hydrated but isn't it true that frogs have poric? skin that absorbs whatever it is out in the air around it?

I know we could always go to WIKI, but ya know its more interesting to hear it from a GFFer perceptive. Which frog you had had that showed a lot of character?

And... gee. Frogs you can lick and get all high? o.O' I don't know if that's disturbing or not. Reminds me of a PBF strip...

There's nowhere I can't reach.