When will the frog realize that the water is hot enough for it to take the leap? Its threshold for pain by then has already adjusted. It has already acclimatized to the current conditions. The initial conditions are already forgotten, unrecognizable to the frog, and no longer the benchmark for what is ideal or tolerable. Is the frog now without recourse?
There would have been obvious warning signs. If the heat has caused the frog's skin to go numb, surely the sight of blisters, redness, and swelling on its skin would be hard to ignore. The water may be clean and calm, but the steam and mirage could not be that inviting. Although the frog, an amphibian, requires access to water to survive, it will undergo metamorphosis as it ages. By nature, it cannot stay in the water forever. It will have to surface to find food, mate, and sufficient air (oxygen).
This post is not about the frog in hot water.
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