Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for January 23, 2020

And that’s just one of the ways you can tell if you’re a man or a mouse.

Sweet and savory. Mmmmmm…

…AND if you knock out the proteins that allow those taste cells to work, the male mice become sterile.

I’m not sure I want to know how they figured that out, or even why they went looking.

So man oh male mouse….

Why do you eat cheese?

And turtles breathe through their butts.

Hey T! 2 quick questions:

1. How do you know that?

2. Why do you know that?

With sense organs like that, is evolution even possible? Or desirable?

This information is life changing…..NOT! LOL

Hmm… hey, try this. Does my flatulence taste funny to you?

Speedy Gonzalez … Mighty…. Jerry…. Mickey….. Minney….

Really Now….

Mouse one; You taste good.

Mouse two; You have good taste.

Where oh where, pray tell, are the female mice taste receptors located …? Inquiring tadpole minds await the lame answer … AFTER the dance of course …!

They’ve spliced mouse genes into corn. Does that mean the corn can taste us as we eat it?

Breakfasting

Hey wipe your taste buds off

Turtles Breathe Out of Their Butt. Technically the term is cloacal respiration, and it’s not so much breathing as just diffusing oxygen in and carbon dioxide out, but the fact remains: when turtles hibernate, their main source of oxygen is through their butt.

I come to Frog Applause each day full of anticipation and high hopes.

Then I run into a lesson-cartoon like this one! I didn’t want to know that. I don’t need to know that. But now I’ll be afflicted by mus-scatological and/or smutty imaginings all the day long! Why, oh, why?!