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===Culinary=== {{Cookbook|Frog}}{{Main|Frog legs}} [[File:2012 Froschschenkel anagoria.JPG|thumb|French ''cuisses de grenouille'']] [[Frog legs]] are eaten by humans in many parts of the world. Indonesia is the world's largest exporter of frog meat, exporting more than 5,000 tonnes of frog meat each year, mostly to France, Belgium and Luxembourg.<ref name="abc news">ΜΊ{{cite news|url =https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=6688391&page=1 |newspaper =abc news |title =Appetite For Frogs' Legs Harming Wild Populations|date =January 20, 2009| first= Catherine |last =Brahic}}</ref> Originally, they were supplied from local wild populations, but overexploitation led to a diminution in the supply. This resulted in the development of [[Aquaculture|frog farming]] and a global trade in frogs. The main importing countries are France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the United States, while the chief exporting nations are Indonesia and China.<ref name=Warkentin>{{cite journal |author1=Warkentin, I. G. |author2=Bickford, D. |author3=Sodhi, N. S. |author4=Corey, J. A. |year=2009 |title=Eating frogs to extinction |journal=Conservation Biology |volume=23 |issue=4 |pages=1056β1059 |doi=10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01165.x |pmid=19210303 |bibcode=2009ConBi..23.1056W |s2cid=1837255 }}</ref> The annual global trade in the [[American bullfrog]] (''Rana catesbeiana''), mostly farmed in China, varies between 1200 and 2400 tonnes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fao.org/fishery/culturedspecies/Rana_catesbeiana/en |title=Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme: ''Rana catesbeiana'' |publisher=FAO: Fisheries and Aquaculture Department |access-date=July 5, 2012}}</ref> The [[Leptodactylus fallax|mountain chicken frog]], so-called as it tastes of chicken, is now endangered, in part due to human consumption, and was a major food choice of the [[Dominica]]ns.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/160128-mountain-chicken-frog-endangered-animals/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160129185426/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/160128-mountain-chicken-frog-endangered-animals/|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 29, 2016|title=The Mountain Chicken Frog's First Problem: It Tastes Like...|author= Ryan Schuessler|date=January 28, 2016|work=National Geographic News}}</ref> [[Raccoon]], [[Virginia opossum|opossum]], [[partridges]], [[Greater prairie chicken|prairie chicken]], and frogs were among the fare [[Mark Twain]] recorded as part of American cuisine.<ref name="TwainWarner1904">{{cite book|author1=Mark Twain|author2=Charles Dudley Warner|title=The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: A tramp abroad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sKdGAQAAMAAJ&q=mark+twain++possum,+coon+and+prairie+hen&pg=PA263|year=1904|publisher=Harper & Bros.|page=263}}</ref>
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