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This blog dictates the 14 week journey of the study of a forg which is the pet of choice in the subject ENG 61703 Engineering and Biomimetics. The reason we choose this subject is due to its importance in helping engineers to conceive ideas from the nature. In accordance to this blog, we would like to thank Dr. Yong Leng Chuan for being the ever understanding lecturer and Dr. Mushtak Al-Atabi for giving us this opportunity to embrace nature's beauty into our engineering capabilities. Hope you enjoy browsing through this enjoy as a token of our appreciation.

Friday, April 17, 2015

Introducing Adopted Life (Jr. ROGER)

Hello Readers!
This week, we would like to introduce our life adoption,

Jr. ROGER


We are glad to welcome Roger into our group! As you can see, Roger (he) is a FROG. We first saw it in a aquarium shop, where the delicate and charming look on its face had us agreed to adopt it.

It has some general frog characteristics that all of us should know. For example:

1. Its back legs are longer than his front legs.
2. It has a very long tongue, 
3. It has a pair of big and round eyes
4. It has smooth and moist skin. 

As we all know, frogs are CARNIVORES, they eat meat. Small frogs usually eat insects, but larger frogs will eat mice, small snake, or even smaller frog. When they are hunting for their food, they will throw their sticky tongue and wrap their prey and swallow them down their throat without chewing. Thus, FROGs have NO teeth.

Besides that, frogs have a very good eyesight. They are able to see nearly all directions. They also have a very good hearing. But there is a very special ability of their eardrum. It is used to differentiate their gender.  If the eardrum is smaller than the eye, it is a female and vice versa. This is how we confirmed the gender of our Jr. Roger. It's a he!

Frogs are also very good in jumping and swimming. This is due to their strong and powerful back legs which allows them to jump up to 20 times of the body length. Furthermore, their back legs are also able to dig or burrow underground for hibernation.

This is important. Not all frogs can croak! Every frog will produce its own special sound like whistle, peep, grunt and rib-bit. 

And Did You Know?
Frogs DON'T drink water. They absorb water with their skin. 


That's about it! Hope you learned something about frogs this week! Stay tuned to our next post as we venture deeper into discovering the natural potentials of Roger in human life!


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