What have we here? 

 

 

Same frog

 

 

 

Probably not a frog.

 

Despite all my time here whenever I point at a similar amphibian and say ' frog ? '

 

I am instantly corrected since they have so many names for the different types and sizes. However , I just asked the wife and to spite me , she said it's a kind of frog.

Looks like a tree frog.

Tree Frog. Looks emaciated/ill...or dead❓

32 minutes ago, Skeptic7 said:

Tree Frog. Looks emaciated/ill...or dead❓

You mean it croaked?

Sorry to go off topic but reminds me of a joke.

 

Why cant Miss Piggy count to 70? After 69 she gets a frog in her throat.

Looks like a Brown Tree Frog or one of the related tree frog species. Maybe a juvenile (no size scale in the fotos), and it looks additionally quite badly emaciated with an injured back.

 

You can buy them in the market, dried, and they are quite yummy/crunchy, to be eaten bones and all.

This one has lived in our shower room for 2 months now. I was mystified how he got in but once I caught him coming in through the venting window high up on an external wall. Seems quite happy. Never croaks. I've caught him taking a swim in the toilet bowl. Since he took up residence no more insects or geckos in there .... no more gecko poo in there.  So he/she is welcome 

Hum.. and I thought it was toad.

3 hours ago, AgMech Cowboy said:

Hum.. and I thought it was toad.

Toads are easily differentiated by their warts on their body; there is one very common large species in Thailand, the Indian Common Toad; Thais are calling them Kangkok. They have large glands behing their back, from which they secrete a poisonous substance: do not touch your eyes if you have touched them!

 

In Thailand, I know of no cases where they were eaten, but in some parts of Cambodia, they are a delicacy. Poisonings are not uncommon if the glands and sexual organs in the body are not properly removed (and they can lead to death).

 

Their large tadpoles can be eaten though, and often are.

Licking their poison glands or ingesting otherwise excreted Bufotoxin is supposedly psychedelic. I personally have not tried it and frankly know nobody who has. So maybe they are not a productive species for that -- maybe somebody more knowledgeable can report on this?

 

Another much smaller species commonly described by Thais as toad are the Üng. They are actually a frog, the Darkside Narrowmouth Frog, and not poisonous at all. If attacked or taken in the hand, they blow themselves up until they are round and too big for chicken and other predators to eat. They are commonly eaten cooked in a soup, bones and intestines and all, after coming out in mass at the beginning of the raining season.

 

Their consistency can be a little bit slimy, but they are making a healthy and protein-rich food which no person in Isaan will walk past without having a bowl.

 

The very big toad-like looking frogs sold in the market are Chinese Edible Frogs, and as such also not poisonous. They are easy to propagate, eat relatively cheap food (and also their smaller siblings if the enclosure is too small) while at the same time being very meaty and sold surprisingly expensive per kilo weight: many Isaan families making good money breeding them. Best eaten grilled.

Edited February 22, 20242 yr by jts-khorat