Male green treefrogs attract mates with loud calls, but new research shows parasites can subtly change those signals.
Animals do all sorts of things to attract each other as potential mates. Many birds, for example, produce feathers with ...
The researchers are turning to a simple online game to find out.
New research by Smithsonian scientists suggests that preferences for certain sounds might be evolutionarily conserved ...
Citizen scientists listened to pairs of mating sounds from 16 different species, including male zebra finches, and selected ...
More than 7,000 species of frogs hop, climb and perch around our world—which means more than 7,000 unique frog calls permeate our air. “The diversity of frog sounds is hard to overstate,” says Mark ...
AGASSIZ NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Minn. -- The sun was just a dimming red ball on the western horizon when Maggie Anderson stepped out of the truck to hear what she could hear. The sky overhead was ...
Drawing parallels with other species, not naming names, the voices of female frogs are being drowned out by their much louder male counterparts – so much so we only know how 1.4% of the ladies ...
THE SANTA ROSA PLATEAU ECOLOGICAL RESERVE, Calif. (AP) — The scientist traipses to a pond wearing rubber boots but he doesn’t enter the water. Instead, Brad Hollingsworth squats next to its swampy ...