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OKIsItJustMe

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6. Sadly frogs are apparently smarter than humans

Reply to CrispyQ (Reply #2)

Thu Jun 19, 2025, 05:02 PM

Jun 19

Any frog with a brain will jump out of heating water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog#Experiments_and_analysis

Experiments and analysis

During the 19th century, several experiments were performed to observe the reaction of frogs to slowly heated water. In 1869, while doing experiments searching for the location of the soul, German physiologist Friedrich Goltz demonstrated that a frog that has had its brain removed will remain in slowly heated water, but an intact frog attempted to escape the water when it reached 25 °C.

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