In the wild, frog romance is a raucous affair. When it’s time to mate, the female eastern gray tree frog makes her way to the pond, when there could be hundreds of potential suitors each calling to ...
The female gray foam-nest tree frog increases her odds of reproducing by mating with multiple males and bubble-wrapping her ...
1 of 3 — Dr. Gerlinde Höbel demonstrating how the frog arena works. If you’ve ever spent a warm summer night on a pond, you’ve undoubtedly heard a chorus of frogs calling into the distance. These ...
(CN) — Female frogs have the uncanny ability to block out unwanted sounds, which comes especially handy during the ribbeting spring mating season. Around April frog habitats become a chorus of mating ...
For frogs, love is noisy. Each spring, swamps, marshes and ponds across the United States become the amphibian equivalent of raucous singles bars as a host of damp-skinned hopefuls from many species ...
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 ...
Before frat parties, there were frog ponds. Literal breeding grounds for some of the world’s noisiest bachelors, these lusty pools are where amphibians gather to woo mates. And as any frog researcher ...