BAY MINETTE, Alabama – The incessant, high-pitched trill was obvious as soon as I opened the door to my house in Bay Minette shortly after daylight Wednesday. It took a few minutes to realize that it ...
From a shrill chirp to a banjo-like strum, frog and toad calls are much more nuanced than the “ribbit” sound many children are taught. For years, Maplewood volunteers have listened and documented the ...
MADISON (WKOW) -- Now that it's warming up, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is looking for "froggers" to lend an ear to document frog and toad calls. The Wisconsin Frog and Toad Survey ...
The Southern leopard frog sounds like it's laughing when making its calls, and the spring peeper imitates the clucking of a chicken. When the green tree frog of Arkansas revs up, its croak sounds like ...
A fringe-lipped bat, Trachops cirrhosus, approaches a Fitzinger's robber frog, Craugastor fitzingeri, in Panama. This species of bat eavesdrops on the mating calls that male frogs produce to attract ...
Lin Schwarzkopf works in partnership with Animal Control Technologies Australia, a for-profit company that partners with James Cook University via a Linkage grant. This cane toad research was also ...
The Jacksonville Zoo and Botanical Gardens is doing its part to help prevent a critically endangered amphibian from going extinct. The Puerto Rican crested toad is only found in Puerto Rico, where ...