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More than 7,000 species of frogs hop, climb and perch around our world—which means more than 7,000 unique frog calls permeate ...
By day, they slumber without motion. But, as darkness approaches in our sub-tropical environment, local tree frogs come alive with their sounds of the night. One of the most common tree frogs in th… ...
Deep in the rainforests of Madagascar, scientists have discovered seven new tree frog species that emit noises that researchers said sound closest to some iconic and high-pitched effects from ...
The tree frog appears to use its lungs as a simple noise cancellation filter, enhancing the audibility of the species-specific calls and suppressing sounds made by other species. Frog eardrums.
But by simply inflating her lungs, an American green tree frog (Hyla cinerea) can make her eardrums less sensitive to the sounds of other species, researchers report March 4 in Current Biology.
Seven newly discovered species from the tree frog genus Boophis, found across the rainforests of Madagascar, emit special bird-like whistling sounds in their communication with other frogs. These ...
Next, they want to investigate if male frogs also have this ability and if any of the other 7200 frog species can too. Current Biology DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.048 ...
Hoping for a bit more insight, we called up Matmos, the Baltimore-based electronic-music duo that just released Return to Archive, an album constructed of sounds sampled from Folkways recordings ...
Seven newly discovered species from the tree frog genus Boophis, found across the rainforests of Madagascar, emit special bird-like whistling sounds in their communication with other frogs. These ...
A new volume of Sounds of Disappearance featuring frog sounds collected on the FrogID app is hoping to feature on the ARIA Christmas charts.
These frogs make an explosive “pa-tank” sound, repeated up to ten times, which sounds like a hammer. A chorus of carpenter frogs sounds like a construction crew building a house.