In an attempt to excite the crowd, Pinky Downs, a 1906 Texas A&M graduate and member of the school's Board of Regents, asked "What are we going to do to those Horned Frogs?" Using a term for frog hunting, he answered his own question, "Gig 'em, Aggies!" For emphasis, he made a fist with the thumb extended.
We propose that reed frogs use a combination of acoustic and chemical signals to enhance their ability to detect conspecifics within the dense multi-species breeding aggregations typical for hyperoliid frogs.
Don't walk on four legs - when humans do it, their bottoms stick in the air whether they like it or not, and look more like a common frog using it's defense method, than a cat! Don't meow or hiss a lot around your friends or they will get annoyed.
Indeed, one scientist, the flamboyant Andre Geim, has won both an Ig and a real Nobel; the former for levitating a frog using really strong magnets and the latter for the development of graphene.
Different species of frog use a number of methods of moving around including jumping, running, walking, swimming, burrowing, climbing and gliding.
In the 1996 novel The Story of B, environmentalist author Daniel Quinn spends a chapter on the metaphor of the boiling frog, using it to describe human history, population growth and food surplus.
[The practitioner] made three small circular surface burns on the skin of my arm with a lighted stick, and dabbed them with a translucent drop of the frog poison, using a piece of bark.
Lu et al. [ 14] examined the cellular sources of autofluorescence in freshly isolated frog retinas using a two-photon excitation fluorescence microscope.
He launched an online campaign to reclaim Pepe, urging people to post non-hateful depictions of the frog using the hashtag #SavePepe.
Loewi followed the procedures in the dream: he slowed the heart of one frog using electrical stimuli and collected the chemical secretions that resulted.
