Tadpole Rex, a book about a frog who finds his inner dinosaur, caught Bird's attention.
It shows a boy holding up a frog by one leg and gazing at it.
Kermit is a frog and Miss Piggy is a pig, so lose the felt jokes.
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They look as a cross between a snake and a frog and some alien creature.
The anti-cashists have escalated this sad drama to a point where it has become like boiling a frog.
Gross says to picture a frog, and picture a pot of boiling water.
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Thus some parts of a frog's toe pad are in direct and dry contact with whatever they are standing on.
Work has begun to take away a controversial statue depicting a naked boy with a frog in a part of ancient Venice, Italian media report.
Sheherezad told me she came for tea the other day, and this unfortunate little thing sat without saying a word, just listening, like a frog in the corner.
In the late 1800s English physiologist John Langley discovered the muscular nicotinic receptor when he tied a frog muscle to a round drum, put nicotine on the muscle and saw it contract.
In contrast, if a frog is placed in room-temperature water, which is gradually heated to a boil, the relaxed frog will kick back, stretch out, and calmly allow itself to be boiled to death.
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An ad agency I was working with a decade ago presented, as part of a new round of work, a rough cut of a crazy video featuring a frog, hot pink background, and loud pulsating music by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.
Applying an electric current and getting a muscle to jump is easy. (Alessandro Volta jolted a frog's legs 218 years ago.) Peckham is harvesting the body's own electrical signals to control muscles that have been cut off from the nervous system, a process called functional electrical stimulation, or FES. Peckham runs a group called the Cleveland FES Center, a collaboration among Case Western Reserve and two Cleveland hospitals.
In 1998 he set out to make a toy frog for his 2-year-old daughter.
One of the tourists, Frank Mulliez, 27, a French entrepreneur, finds a frozen frog in the ice cooler.
Frank Mulliez, 27, a member of the billionaire French family behind the Auchan retail empire, finds a frozen frog in the ice cooler.
As many as 10, 000 people have since flocked to Leap Year celebrations in Anthony, which has a leaping frog as its town symbol.
Ironically, if you tossed a new frog into the water as it was heating up, it would jump out of the hot water.
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When dealing with Simic science, one never knows whether the next experiment will turn out to be a shark frog or crocodile ooze.
Ollie, a bunny who refuses to collaborate, creates a rival team called the Thunder Pets, consisting of himself and two inanimate objects: a rock and a toy frog.
Cut the Rope offers another simple idea (slicing a rope holding a cute frog-like creature so it can eat snacks), with lovely graphics and puzzles that are just hard enough to be gratifying when you solve them.
Hence the leap to a live frog.
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Our sharp-eyed guide parted tree fronds to reveal a drowsy kingfisher, tugged an iguana away from its midnight snack and borrowed a red-eyed tree frog from a banana patch.
They hired Millie Chou, a law school graduate, as an associate to sift through business plans and compile a newsletter, Frog Flash, published two to three times a week.
Mark Pepper, who has worked with Brown on frog conservation projects in Peru, runs a legal and ethical frog breeding business but sometimes he finds illegal traders selling species he has never worked with under his name.
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In another initiative, Buffalo has a plush costumed frog named Ready Freddy who doles out hugs and high fives inside youngsters' classrooms.
When my oldest son was about 10, I bought a little plastic toy frog for him.
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