The boiling frog story is a widespread anecdote describing a frog slowly being boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death. The story is often used as a metaphor for the inability of people to react to important changes that occur gradually.

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  • The boiling frog story is a widespread anecdote describing a frog slowly being boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death. The story is often used as a metaphor for the inability of people to react to important changes that occur gradually. The premise of the story is not literally true; an actual frog submerged and gradually heated will jump out. The story is thought to have originated with the work of German physiologist Friedrich Goltz, who demonstrated that a frog will indeed remain in slowly heated water, but only if its brain is removed.
  • L'allégorie de la grenouille utilise une observation concernant le comportement d'une grenouille placée dans de l'eau chauffée pour illustrer un phénomène d'accoutumance progressive conduisant à ne pas réagir à une situation grave.
  • 茹でガエル（ゆでがえる）、茹でガエル現象、茹でガエルの法則とは、ビジネス環境の変化に対応する事の重要性、困難性を指摘するために用いられる寓話の一種。 『ウサギとカメの競争』などと同様、自然科学とは無関係である。
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  • If you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will of course frantically try to clamber out. But if you place it gently in a pot of tepid water and turn the heat on low, it will float there quite placidly. As the water gradually heats up, the frog will sink into a tranquil stupor, exactly like one of us in a hot bath, and before long, with a smile on its face, it will unresistingly allow itself to be boiled to death.
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  • Version of the story from Daniel Quinn's ''The Story of B''
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  • The boiling frog story is a widespread anecdote describing a frog slowly being boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death. The story is often used as a metaphor for the inability of people to react to important changes that occur gradually.
  • L'allégorie de la grenouille utilise une observation concernant le comportement d'une grenouille placée dans de l'eau chauffée pour illustrer un phénomène d'accoutumance progressive conduisant à ne pas réagir à une situation grave.
  • 茹でガエル（ゆでがえる）、茹でガエル現象、茹でガエルの法則とは、ビジネス環境の変化に対応する事の重要性、困難性を指摘するために用いられる寓話の一種。 『ウサギとカメの競争』などと同様、自然科学とは無関係である。
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  • Boiling frog
  • Allégorie de la grenouille
  • 茹でガエル
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