/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

What is /jp/'s opinion on frogs?
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/1255684540

[Anonymous No.]

suwako dump XD

[seermo No.]

there pretty good. i know.

[Anonymous No.]

Pretty cool animals. See, this one's called the shrinking frog, because the tadpole is a behemoth measuring 25 centimeters, but the adult is about a quarter of that size. Imagine a six-meter little girl (with external gills and a tail) growing up to be a dimunitive 5-feet tall woman, and you've got it about right.

Here's a size chart for comparison.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3574256
Some sort of reverse-giantess porn?

[Anonymous No.]

And this is a water holding frog. What it does is pretty obvious from the name - being an amphibian in the arid deserts of Australia is no easy task, and the animal can store large amounts of water in its bladder to remain dormant for about 5 years maximum. When a rainstorm comes, the burrowing, dormant frogs surface and quickly mate, the tadpoles maturing before the small reservoirs of water are dried.

Aborigines dig up those frogs, stab them and drink as a source of water. Given it comes from the bladder, guess this one's for the peeing fetishists.

There's an Australian myth of a frog waking up one day in a great thrist and eventually drinking up the entire water resolve of the Earth to quench it. The crisis is solved by making the frog laugh, where the stored water is released as a massive flood that covered the world, and the story later details a rapist pelican that saved those stranded on the islands afterwards.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3574350
... a rapist pelican?

[Anonymous No.]

carebearstare

[Anonymous No.]

>>3574256
Huh. So Umihara Kawase wasn't all that far-fetched after all.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3574413
Yeah. Originally, the pelican feathers were all black. After the flood, this particular pelican, Borun, helped rescue the creatures left on the islands. Afterwards, he attempted to take one of rescued the women as his wife. The women objected, and the quarrel eventually ended with Borun's death at the hands of a fellow pelican, and feathers of pelicans were turned a mixture of black and white as a result of the act.

But back to frogs, many tree frogs are very well capable of gliding, possessing extended toes and webbed feet to better do so.

[Anonymous No.]

Oh, it seems there's an amphibian article on Bogleech. The author is a far superior knower-of-bizarre-shit than me, so I recommend a read.

http://www.bogleech.com/bio-amphibia.html

And there's also the narrowmouth toad from the mutualism article. This one lives in symbiosis with a tarantula - the massive tarantula has no way to defend against ant swarms, so the toad, adapted to eating ants, slurps off the ants off of the arachnid and even its eggs. The tarantula attacks any amphibian not called narrowmouth toad, but lets this particular amphibian do as it wishes, even sharing the same nest.

[Anonymous No.]

Suwako is the only frog related thing I like.

I hate frogs.