• Question: do you like frogs

    Asked by brendan999 to Allan, Angela, Diva, Harriet, Nathan on 28 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Nathan Langford

      Nathan Langford answered on 28 Jun 2012:

      I do. In Australia, when it finally rained after a long dry spell, the frogs used to come out and create the most enormous noise. I really miss that sound. 😉

    • Photo: Diva Amon

      Diva Amon answered on 28 Jun 2012:

      Hey brendan999,

      I like most frogs apart from two species: Cane toads and the Surinam toad
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_toad
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surinam_toad

      I dislike cane toads because I think they are most horrible creatures in the entire world. We get loads of them in Trinidad and they live in our pond in the garden and sometimes in our pool. I’m not afraid of any other animals apart from Cane toads. They just curl my blood.

      I dislike Surinam toads because they really gross me out. They do this incredible (but disgusting) thing where their babies hatch out of holes in the back of the mother. You can read more about it and see pictures on the link above.

    • Photo: Allan Pang

      Allan Pang answered on 29 Jun 2012:

      Depends how you qualify what does “like” means.

      If you mean, if I like watching frogs… not really.

      If you mean, if I enjoyed learning or understanding frogs, I dissected frogs before and their body system is very interesting.

      if you mean, I like frog as a delicacy. I do. They taste like chicken! You only eat the frog legs.

Comments

  • Photo: Nathan

    Nathan commented on :

    @Diva – You’re right about cane toads, Diva… In Australia, they were introduced as an attempt to control the cane beetle, which was damaging crops. Since then, however, they’ve become an absolute pest. I believe they also try and breed with our native frogs and when they do, they make them sterile. So cane toads are actually also responsible for harming lots of our native frogs… Really rotten things…