The old man? He was a bloody spy at one point of his live, so I will just say that see him as a small bussiness owner is good, he had a rough life.

Weird name it is, because it has something to do on how they can live on small patches of water, like it is some kind of "baba" or salivate, and its so odd because amphibians usually like bigger patches of water, in exchange they wont grow as large as the amazonian ones, and they eat serpents, so its a win win xD