yeah, the bright colors usually mean that your poisonous. Or so it goes with frogs.

I guess if you’re poisonous but look like everyone else, you just get eaten. Then you die and whoever ate you dies. CHECKMATE!

Or – could the grasshopper be trying to get laid?

I had not heard of it, but that is some weirdness. They think it alters the structure of your taste cells? And they stay like that for hours? Odd indeed.

I was wondering that too. And the fellow was so relaxed, like he had nothing to fear. My only guess, other than him being an incredibly cool cat, was that he’s deathly poisonous to the touch and wants to advertise that fact.

It’s West African but keep your eye out for Miraculin. It’s a fruit that makes bitter things taste sweet. Not like sugar, according to this blog, but rather by tricking your taste buds into thinking something is sweet.

I’d be interested if you can pick up any. As you may have guessed, my life here is boring. I suppose I could look around here for some myself. But I figure so long as you’re all the way over there…