I have a frog who lives in my toilet. To be polite I wont spend too much time talking about the ramifications of that. All I will say is I pay of a lot of attention when I use that room and it certainly is heart starter I can do with out when you don’t see it and it jumps out of the bowl at you when you flush. You can imagine my piercing screams
I was part of a Facebook conversation recently with YFC’s Kylie Stretton and Bron Roberts that clearly showed living in the country often meant you shared your home with diverse array of animals that you would preferred stayed outside where you didn’t want to see them either.
But aren’t frogs fascinating My frog likes to come up the loo and make his/her way up the hall to my ensuite which is tiled with beige travertine. Sometimes I know the frog is there because it croaks and keeps me a wake at night. Amazingly the frog changes colour to the match the travertine and most times I don’t see it until I put my shampoo bottle accidently on it and it screeches. Far too many heart starters in my house
The frog who lives in my bathroom ( when he is not living in my loo)
The cat spotted him and the chameleon capability came in very handy as a life saving tool
Wow fancy being able to change colour at will when the mood takes you
Color changes like this are created by special pigment cells called chromatorphores. Inside these cells, grains of pigment cause color changes by shifting their distribution. When the grains are packed together in the center of each cell, the frog is light colored. When the pigment grains spreads out within each cell, the frog’s color darkens and intensifies. See http://www.exploratorium.edu/frogs/mainstory/frogstory3.html
And believe it or not humans may soon be able to change colours of their clothes to suit the ambiance of where you can be just like a chameleon?
This could soon be a reality as a textile designers have now come up with an interactive electronic fabric that can change colours in seconds using a number of electronic devices. See more here