Scientists suggest female frogs listen for changes in the male calls as a signal for when it's warm enough to mate.
Seven species of frogs and one toad make the Northland their home. Each lays its eggs in water. Some stay in the water, others go off to live on land for the rest of the year. All give calls and songs ...
Every other Friday, the Outside/In team here at NHPR answers listener questions about the natural world. Today's question comes from Andy, calling from Dover, New Hampshire. Alejandro Vélez: That is a ...
THE SANTA ROSA PLATEAU ECOLOGICAL RESERVE, Calif. — The scientist traipses to a pond wearing rubber boots but he doesn’t enter the water. Instead, Brad Hollingsworth squats next to its swampy edge and ...
A trio of biologists from Universidade de São Paulo, Red Ecoacústica Colombia and the University of Missouri System has found that researchers conduct only a fraction of studies of female frog calls ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. a small frog with light green coloring and dark spots sits on a green leaf “That’s why we named the frogs after Kirk, Picard, ...
Hiking through the dense rainforest of Madagascar, scientists heard a series of “otherworldly” sounds. The “somewhat bizarre” calls came from several “cute” creatures living near streams. They turned ...
Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...
For 40 years, wildlife biologists worldwide have been sounding the alarm on a mass extinction of amphibians. In response, several groups of scientists and volunteers have formed to chronicle exactly ...