As winter fades and spring arrives, Connecticut’s wetlands, ponds, and forests come alive with the calls of frogs and toads. These amphibians are an important and often overlooked part of the state’s ...
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Summer is my favorite season, and the past few weekends have included seeing and hearing various frogs and toads. Earlier this month I had the opportunity ...
Friends of the Rouge want to recruit volunteers to ID the sounds of eight frog and toad species to monitor the health of the ...
FROG watching might not be as popular as birding, but that might soon change following the launch of a new app designed to help users identify the amphibians croaking outside. The app, known as Frogs ...
Male Sierran chorus frogs change their breeding calls depending on the temperature, a UC Davis study found. (BenderPhoto, Getty Images) When the time is right, a good love song can make all the ...
These tiny frogs have an enormous voice for their size, and the recent warm evenings have been filled with their lovely chorus.
The study, carried out by the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), shows that during the cold early days of spring, male frogs sing slow, sluggish, and less energetic songs.
Drawing parallels with other species, not naming names, the voices of female frogs are being drowned out by their much louder male counterparts – so much so we only know how 1.4% of the ladies ...