How do you determine the pH level of a certain animal?

Question

Our teacher told us that we had to find the pH level of our chosen animal. Mine is a Strawberry Poison-Dart Frog, but I can't find the pH level anywhere online.

yessssssss she is a moron!

yes i fully understood what she said. "include the pH level of your organism"
no one else understood. like the guy before you said, shes a moron.

Answer 1

They have Ph level tests for swimming pools. Maybe you could test your frog with it. Check a swimming pool store.

Answer 2

Acid/base level? Are you sure you understood the question correctly? The only way I could think of to find the overall pH of a given animal would be, like someone already said, would be to throw them in a blender, and then do a simple litmus test on them. However, since you probably don't have a Strawberry Poison Dart frog to spare...ask your teacher to be more specific. Maybe it was about the pH of their poison, or their environment, or??

Answer 3

That is a retarded question. Each tissue in the animal has a different pH. There is no 'pH of an animal.' You would have to grind the entire animal up into mush and test the pH of the solution with litmus paper or a pH meter.

Wow. Tell your teacher she is a moron.

Answer 4

When someone says determine lets say your body pH they would be refering to your blood pH. Not your individual tissues. So if you were determining the pH of a poison dart frog you'd test their blood. However each individual animal's pH can vary with different factors such as environment, diet, or health even.

Answer 5

Human blood is about pH 7.4.

Googling around, it looks as if frogs are more strongly alkaline than we are, with a pH of about 7.8