What: 15th Annual Critter Count. Learn all about amphibians and reptiles during Vancouver’s annual waterfront census of frogs, snakes and lizards. Children are welcome if accompanied by adults. When: ...
The sounds of invasive coquí frogs have been heard in Waimānalo since at least 2021. On a recent Thursday night, HPR's ...
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 ...
An international team of researchers have discovered seven new species of tree frogs that make otherworldly calls in the rainforests of Madagascar. Their strange, high-pitched whistling calls sound ...
For us humans, having a conversation in a crowded room is challenging – it’s often called the cocktail party problem. The mix of sounds arriving at our eardrums needs to be analysed to pick out the ...
Most male frogs want their mating call to stand out from the crowd, and they do that by calling when nobody else is. This makes sure that the females hear them loud and clear, and know where they are.
For the past week or so there has been a little tree frog somewhere on the west side of our house. Every now and then he will make that tree frog sound, and we'll wonder where he is. Both of us have ...
Molly Albecker conducted a tree frog survey in the salty marshes near Bodie Island Lighthouse, but she didn’t think she’d find any frogs. The doctoral candidate and her East Carolina University ...
To study the effects of road noise on frogs, Thierry Lengagne of the University of Lyon and the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and colleagues first recorded noise from a nearby ...
Human males try all kinds of things to seduce females. Some show off their fancy cars, some learn to play the guitar, some drive big trucks. The male Mientien tree frog scoffs at our puny human tricks ...