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Line 1: − The '''frog''' is a marine{{fact}} [[amphibian]]. Frogs have often been the subject of scientific experiment, whether in high school [[science]] class [[vivisection|dissections]] or [[Voltaire]]'s 1766 experiments, in which he discovered that frogs hear with their legs.{{fact}} + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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[[Image:Amazon-horned-frog.jpg|right|250px|thumb|An Horned Frog in the Amazon.]]
[[Image:Amazon-horned-frog.jpg|right|250px|thumb|An Horned Frog in the Amazon.]]
'''Frogs''' and the similar [[toad]]s are a large family of hundreds of species of batrachian [[amphibians]], with a nearly worldwide distribution, absent only from high latitudes and remote oceanic islands. Even in deserts, species such as the water-holding frog, which is used as a drinking bottle by Australian [[aborigine]]s, are to be found, buried deep below the ground between the infrequent rains.
== Frogs in Science ==
Frogs have often been the subject of scientific experiment, whether in high school [[science]] class [[vivisection|dissections]] or [[Voltaire's]] 1766 experiments, in which he discovered that frogs hear with their legs.{{fact}}
The discovery that a frog's leg will kick if an electrical shock is applied to it was the scientific basis behind the reflex tests now common in doctors' offices.{{fact}}
The discovery that a frog's leg will kick if an electrical shock is applied to it was the scientific basis behind the reflex tests now common in doctors' offices.{{fact}}
== Frogs in the Bible ==
One of the [[seven plagues of Egypt]] was of Frogs.
Leviticus declares them unclean to eat.
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[[Category:Amphibians]]
[[Category:Amphibians]]