1I). The family has an Old World distribution, with the majority of species occurring in Africa and a few in Europe and Asia. It is absent from Australasia. Several species are known in which unmated females produce sounds, not the males as in other families. This is done by flapping ...
This classic of both biological fieldwork and natural sound recordings, originally released by Folkways in 1958, presents 57 species of frogs and toads on 92 tracks, digitally remastered from the original master tapes. Compiled and narrated by renowned herpetologist Charles M. Bogert, these sounds ...
This is for all those who are tired of credit card traditions at Christmas. People in Lake Palmer, Colorado, gather at the town hall for what looks and sounds like an Easter egg hunt. They set off every year to find a special log that will light the darkest days of the year. A yule...
In field experiments, we exposed calling males of two overlapping species and two non-overlapping species to recorded bullfrog vocalizations, white noise, and the vocalization of another native frog species. To identify effects, we compared calls recorded before, during, and after exposure. Our ...
I he call of the male coqy sounds like: Ko kee! Ko kee!In the southeaster United States,local people celebrate coqui frogs But in Hawaii,the foreign frog has been conse dered as a harmful animal.I he coui frogs re a major danger to Hawaii's environmental sustem.I he frogs eat ...
There are more than 4,000 species of frogs. The largest frog in the world is called the Goliath frog. It lives inWest Africa. It is about 12 inches (30 centimeters) long. Frogs can be noisy. They make many different noises, and are often named after the sounds they make. For example...
But while we fiddle with a frog (or mangle an unconscious dog), the realization starts to grow we gain in knowledge even so, and if a theory won't fit, we have the means to better it. Experiment makes feasible exchange of ... S Stearns - 《Perspectives in Biology & Medicine》 被引...
<Sounds great.> Thanks again for all your help and support :) Cheers, Tania <Most welcome, Neale.> Bristlenose Pleco Eggs 7/7/13 Hi guys and gals! <Rhi> Just after some egg advice. I have a pair of Bristlenose Plecos in a community tank (mainly other angels, clown loaches and a...
There’s nothing like writing a poem, to take words, each one with its own history, multiple meanings, and build a sculpture of meaning. It’s a gift, the words that come to us. People have sparked these sounds, people have laid down their lives for their continuation—language is the...
The sounds of words have aided greatly in myth building. Names and words which are somewhat alike in sound, _paronyms_, as they are called by grammarians, may be taken or mistaken one for the other. Again, many myths spring from _homonymy_, that is, the sameness in sound of words ...