Frogs in hot water

[Joel S. Berson]

At 8/4/2011 09:54 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>Actually the links (especially with reference to the Goltz studies
>reported in Beitrage zur Lehre von den Functionen der Nervencentren
>des Frosches; Berlin: August Hirschwald, 1869) make it clear that a
>frog will indeed allow itself to be boiled when placed in a pot of
>gradually heated water, IF (and apparently only if) it is a
>decerebrated frog.  And decerebrated frogs probably have an equally
>hard time figuring out whether or not it's darkest just before the dawn.

The only un-decerebrated frog I'm familiar with is the Cerebrated
Jumping frog of Calaveras County.

JSB

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