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Greenish-brown then! If someone says "green" and "frog" I picture something very different.
Seems they can be dangerous to pets (and small children):
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/articl...il12a.html
I think dogs get used to them and after one bad encounter know to stay away.
I haven't heard of any dogs getting poisoned but then I don't have a dog.
You may want to put your dog near a toad to see how he reacts.
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Oooookay... I can't resist here.
Note the large swollen venom glands just behind the eyes? The thought gears are turning now...
I SEE A GOLDEN OPORTUNITY HERE; SPREAD THE NEWS TO ALL JUNKIES!
See "Uses"
http://www.issg.org/database/species/ecology.asp?fr=1&si=113
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There's already a toad licker or two in Puna. Hair restorer?! What great news! I've got to rub one on my head right away!
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LOL leilaniguy...
Something’s just make you wonder what in *&&$^ goes on in science labs sometimes.
How on earth does a scientist come up with the notion of testing a human woman for pregnancy by injecting her urine “subcutaneously into the lymph glands of a male toad” and then to test the toads urine there after for “spermatozoa” to determine if the human woman is pregnant or not?
I mean; what the heck else is going on in those labs?
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It's probably got something to do with how they used to do (human) pregnancy tests using frogs.
The telltale hormones in the urine affected the frogs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnancy_test
An improvement arrived with the frog test, introduced by Lancelot Hogben, which still was used in the 1950s and allowed the frog to remain alive and be used repeatedly: a female frog was injected with serum or urine of the patient; if the frog produced eggs within the next 24 hours, the test was positive.
