louis is the name of the alligator in princess and the frog.
what is the name of the alligator in princess and the frog?
louis
the commercial began with a scene of a swamp at nighttime, and a close-up of bud rhythmically croaking his name. later weis and er join in. they croak rather randomly for about ten seconds, until bud, weis, and er begin croaking in sequence, thus forming the budweiser name. their croaking becomes quicker as the camera pulls back to show a bar with a large neon budweiser sign glowing in the night. the commercial is often listed among the best super bowl commercials in history, ranking at no. 5 at msnbc's list in 2004. several more frog ads were produced, with hollywood animatronic effects company the character shop brought online to give the frogs more flexibility and capabilities. in one ad, the three bud frogs are sitting on a log in a louisiana swamp, chanting their "bud...weis...er" chorus, when a budweiser truck rolls by. the "bud" frog zaps out his sticky tongue, latching onto the moving truck. like an elastic bungee, the tongue stretches to the point where it can no more, then launches the frog off the log, sending him flying through the air after the truck, while a "yee-haw!" and cajun music is heard. the frog puppets featured silicone skins over animatronic armatures, which allowed the frogs to breathe, bloat their throats, speak, and blink and move their eyes, via radio control and rod operation. a subsequent ad featured not the entire trio, but rather bud and a newfound female frog. one later super bowl commercial featuring the frogs had them riding on the back of an alligator into the bar, where they croak their names at the startled patrons, and leave with a crate of budweiser beer strapped to the alligator's waist while dancing to jamming by bob marley and the wailers.
budweiser frogs
the alligator was described by french naturalist albert-auguste fauvel in 1879 as "alligator sinensis". the genus "alligator" had previously contained only the american alligator since its creation in 1807. fauvel wrote a detailed description of the species in a book titled "alligators in china: their history, description & identification", including information about its historical account. in 1947, it was suggested to group the chinese alligator in a separate genus from its american relative, due to the chinese alligator's bony plate on its upper eyelid. this bony plate is present in caimans, but is rarely present in the american alligator. at the time, the plate was thought to not appear in the american alligator at all. this produced the belief that the chinese alligator's relationship with other crocodilians was between caimans and american alligators. paulus edward pieris deraniyagala described the genus "caigator" the same year, which only contained the chinese alligator, making its scientific name "caigator sinensis". however, paleontology has shown that the chinese alligator has evolved from other now-extinct members of the genus "alligator". this and the fact that the american alligator does infrequently have a bony plate on its eyelid have caused "caigator sinensis" to now be classified as a synonym of "alligator sinensis". there is still not a consensus among biologists that the american and chinese alligators belong to the same genus, despite multiple studies comparing the biochemistry, histology, and various other aspects of the two crocodilians.
chinese alligator