--- In austric@yahoogroups.com, "paul jeffrey ang" <pol.pagong@...> wrote:
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> *Ilocano: tuk�k
> Tagalog: palaka
> Cebuano: baki

Thanks Paul Jeffrey Ang.



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> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 2:20 PM, alas_my_loves
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> > Sorry for getting so far off topic, but I hoped someone might have
> > experience with this frog, biologically or as a delicacy. Does it
> > actually eat crabs? How?
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> > (Crab-eating macaque monkeys do eat crab, but crab-eating seals do
> > not, rather they strain tiny krill shrimp through their filter teeth)
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> > http://mangrove.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/text/2111.htm
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> > this frog accumulates urea, possibly for buoyancy, as well as for
> > saline water osmosis control.
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> > It is edible, has anyone eaten this frog? I want to know if the urea
> > affects the taste, since shark meat is also said to contain urea
> > which renders it inedible except it's fin. Why one but not the other,
> > regarding edibility? Maybe only the frog's skin contains appreciable
> > urea? Are frog legs delicacies during cooking skinned or not?
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> > Does this frog's throat air sac differ from freshwater frog air sacs
> > sizewise or vocalwise or auditorywise?
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> > In Malay/Indonesian, frog is 'katak', how about in Philippino?
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