CAN A TEXAS FROG NOD OFF DURING A HEAT WAVE? DO FROGS ACTUALLY SLEEP?

For this edition of our slumbercentric weekend feature, we’re going where no one has hopped before: Let Sleeping Frogs Sleep.
That sort of adds a charming croaking tone to the traditional harmonic presentation of Let Snoozing Dogs Lie & Napping Cats Nap. This is our first Frog in the entire 20-year history of readlarrypowell.com.
I do not know if Frogs snore. And there are scientific discussions of whether they enjoy an actual mammalian-type sleep.

This edition pays tribute to a specific Frog. I’m capitalizing the “F” because there are so many Frogs on the planet and they deserve the honor of capitalization. They don’t outnumber the flying bugs, but the carnivorous amphibians are working on it. 
This one happens to lived in the Great State of Heat, aka Texas. In fact, this one lives on the western edge of the metrostove.
A Frogfan Friend sent me the photos and the explanation.
The Frog was enduring one of our recent 105-degree days when a person with a camera — coulda been anybody in 2022 — spotted him on the baked earth near the backyard water faucet. 
My Frogfan Friend explained, “That faucet leaks a little bit and he curls up next to the block. I nearly stepped on him three times, but now he is used to me turning it on and off and he just waits for the leak to return.”

Now, while we can usually look at a mammal and determine “awake or asleep” quick as a blink, you pretty much have to study a Frog .
I found this on Wikipedia and since I don’t know any UFE types — University FRP Experts —I clicked HERE  and learned this: “Frogs employ a Slow-Wave sleep pattern, also called Non-REM Sleep or Quiet Sleep. Karmanova (1982) found that amphibians display 3 different types of rest or sleep-like states called: Primary, Catatonic and Cataplectic Sleep.” [LARRY ASIDE: Based on the Catatonic and Cataplectic terms, I’m suggesting that either cats learned to sleep from Frogs or cats taught Frogs to sleep. I have 3 hours of unimpeachable junior college biology credit. Just FYI.]
Moving along: In my “formative years,” I recall a famous Frog from the black-and-white-TV era. There was a show called Buster Brown Shoes presents Andy’s Gang and from 1955 though 1960, Andy was Andy Devine, the character actor who’d been in lots of movies and also played Jingles, the rotund sidekick to the hero on The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok. But on Andy’s Gang, Andy’s sidekick was a Frog named Froggy. And in each episode, Andy would summon his sidekick by enthusiastically saying, “Pluck your magic twanger, Froggy!” Click HERE  to see the introduction — you don’t have to watch the whole clip. TV was quite different in those early days.
Years passed and the new Frog on the block was Kermit. Some of you kids will remember Kermit from the early days of The Muppets. Here is Kermit singing his 1970 musical hit. It won't make you feel blue.
Thus we conclude our intellectual pursuit of the truth about Frogs and their sleeping habits. 
May all of Texas’ Frogs find cool places to enjoy. May all of Texas’ humans hop along that same chilling trail!
[DEAR READERS: You may not have a Frog at your house — unless you’ve got a kid at TCU. And, to show that I didn’t nod off in science class, the Horned Frog is a lizard, not a Frog. Please send photos of your slumbering companion animals or any other critter to dallrp@aol.com. We’ll post their photos and their biographies in our weekend feature, Let Sleeping Dogs Lie & Napping Cats Nap. You’ll be inspiring people to open their hearts and homes to animals. And you’ll be inspiring insomniacs to believe that they, too, can get some sleep if they can just find the right dripping faucet with the right cataplectic pace.]

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