I was going to train a frog to spare my thumbs the repetitive stress injuries, but now I see that that will never work.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
I was going to train a frog to spare my thumbs the repetitive stress injuries, but now I see that that will never work.
Made my day.
Fool me five times in a row, and your thumb gets it, jerk.
Glen Davidson
ROFLMAO. One for the dinner table tonight.
I miss my pixies.
Do bite the hand that pretends to feed you.
…and of course I had to have Yackity Sax in the background. That song really does make anything funnier.
This may be a stupid question, but in my defense I did get sick during the frog dissection in middle school: do frogs have any kind of teeth or anything there they can bite you with? He acted like it really hurt, after all.
AHAHAHAHA ending made it. First lizard, then frog, who else has a secret talent for this game?
That frog has me beat.
Mr. Hands deserved that.
Mr. Bill would be pleased.
Is this some kind of top secret DoD research project to make man eating frogs?
Don’t they know, they need to use radioactive frogs?
@7 These frogs do have teeth, pointy sharp ones right in the front. Or well, not sure if they’re teeth, they might be bony ridges? TO THE INTERNETS!
http://aqualandpetsplus.com/Frogs,226.jpg
Real teeth in the top jaw, odontoid projections(fake teeth) in the bottom jaw, though the flash makes it hard to see, argh.
I’ve got a mental image of Kermit watching this video on an iPad and face-palming.
To answer the question, yes. This species has teeth. Or rather, they have projections from the vomer and dentary bones on the upper and lower jaws respectively, in addition to pedicilate teeth on the maxilla. These can draw blood in humans, and that particular animal is relatively small. They get to be larger than dinner plates and capable of eating rats.
All in all, I’m sure it smarted. There’s a bit of force there.
This is a young/small specimen, though. They, can, as said above, eat rats when larger.
Tim Minchin has got in trouble again. Here’s his latest song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFdUJLebzU
And here’s his upset rant at being cut from the show:
http://www.timminchin.com/2011/12/22/im-not-on-the-jonathan-ross-show/
That guy used to be all thumbs, but the frog fixed that.
The frog is thinking, “If you want to play silly games then we can play silly games.”
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@benjaminallen Don’t they also try to eat anything they can fit their mouth around, and don’t they also refuse to let go of anything ever? I seem to recall stories of them choking to death because they wouldn’t let go of something too big to eat.
Yes, a friend of mine has one, it’s *huge* and damn scary. She feeds it baby rats.
I like that frog.
I recall once that my Argentinean Horned frog, a similarly configured frog to the Pyxicephalus, after biting my foolish finger that was trying to get its goldfish up where it could better see it, doggedly hung on. It even, as I was trying to shake it off so I wouldn’t hurt it, tried to gulp more of my finger. That’s when I was able to pull my finger back to safety. Lucky for me, because I don’t think it would have stopped at just one finger.
How far down the evolutionary scale can we go and still find creatures that don’t like to be tormented?
I dunno. Michele Bachmann?
Zeno @25
You Win!
The funniest comment on youtube was, “I guess video games really do cause violence.”
Take that, you sadistic mammal!
I used to keep an Argentinian Horned Frog, which, as has been mentioned, is similar. I remember reading that if they weren’t cannibalistic that there would be no other animals, up to their size, living in the Frog’s natural habitat.
They are incredibly cool. I would love to own an actual Pacman Frog, though it might well end up owning me!
Kingbollock and other frog fanciers – do you think the frog bit him because he was PO’d, or was it just a reflexive grab at a moving thing? (Or both?)
It wanted some real meat.
Tough to answer that one, seeing as there is no such thing as an evolutionary scale upon which one can go up or down to find creatures.
What do you mean? How far away from humans on the tree? Any particular brain architecture? Please explain.
When I said “How far down the evolutionary scale…” I meant, How far down the evolutionary tree of life (toward more simple, primitive creatures) can we go and still find creatures that don’t like to be tormented?
The frog may or may not have felt tormented. It maybe just saw something more appetizing.
I do think animals, especially pets like dogs, can sense if they are being tormented.