As hilariously related by CB songster Cledus Maggard in the 70s, there is nothing on earth funnier than a kid with weak kidneys having to stop at every Texaco while Dad's trying to get the family on a vacation in their Oldsmobile.
Who remembers CB radios? Cledus Maggard? The 70s? Oldsmobiles? Vacations?
Everyone knows, a big iced tea for lunch and a bumpy stretch of road equals agony...but there is a creature who has no problems in that area!
Part of it is, they have no indoor plumbing, so they have to choose between leaving their hiding places and getting cold, or just rolling over and waiting 'til May.
They do what many of us felt as if we did for the last 12 months: they hibernate. And for these frogs, it's good to do so. They get energy from not going #1.They have special belly enzymes that turn the urea in their liquid waste to nitrogen.
And not only do they "hold it in," they actually freeze, inside and out, the entire time! Science believes this is because LL Bean does not make a down jacket small enough to fit them, so they just thaw out after winter ends.
Nature sure knows what she's doing!
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