If it quacks like a duck, it’s a wood frog. If it sounds like sleigh bells jingling, it’s a spring peeper. If it sounds like someone shaking ball bearings in a tin can, that’s a rare Blanchard’s ...

East Central Illinois FrogWatch program allows the C-U community to track frogs and toads in the area, contributing data to help scientists.

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 ...

Animals do all sorts of things to attract each other as potential mates. Many birds, for example, produce feathers with ...

Male green treefrogs attract mates with loud calls, but new research shows parasites can subtly change those signals.

They used to be classified in the same family as what we call tree frogs, like the Grey Treefrog (another great noisy animal) in genus Hyla, but have been recently reclassified to the genus Pseudacris ...

copy of tape 747 FW-ASCH-7RR-0747 consists of frog calls which were used in conjunction with a presentation entitled "Amphibean Calls and Their Significance," presented by Charles M. Bogert at an ...

When the time is right, a good love song can make all the difference. A study from UC Davis found that temperature affects the sound and quality of male frogs’ mating calls. In the colder, early weeks ...