The frog video.
Frog viral video.
Frog famous video on twitter.
You never know when a frog playing an electronic game will lead to an experiment on the physics of saliva.
But then, who even knew that frogs could play electronic games?
So let’s start with that.
Alexis C. Noel, a Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech, and her supervisor, David L. Hu, were watching a viral YouTube video in which a frog is attacking the screen of a smartphone running an ant-smashing game. It appears to be winning.
They started wondering how — in reality — frog tongues stick to insects so quickly when they shoot out to grab them, and decided it was a phenomenon worth st
udying.
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