I was Googling around for something & came across this wonderful site about frogs. A page on the site is dedicated to "Frog Fables" - an eclectic of parables with a frog / toad as the topic of discussion.
I personally liked the story of "The Boiled Frog". I found it surprising that a frog's natural instincts are fine tuned to detect sudden changes in an environment, but not the slow changes that ultimately lead to the same change in the environment.
Well, this quote from the page, summarizes the story :-
" This parable is often used to illustrate how humans have to be careful to watch slowly changing trends in the environment, not just the sudden changes. Its a warning to keep us paying attention not just to obvious threats but to more slowly developing ones. "
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