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It’s frog-eat-frog in the amphibian dating game. An ecologist has captured the moment a female green and golden bell frog attempted to eat a male suitor. Dr. John Gould, from the University of ...
Female green and golden bell frogs in Australia will eat their male counterparts when the males' mating call displeases them. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
It’s not easy being green, golden and male, according to a researcher’s observation of attempted frog cannibalism in Australia. By Joshua Rapp Learn It was nighttime on Kooragang Island north ...
This island is known not for its steamy frog trysts, but rather for being one of the last safe habitats for male green and gold bell frogs. Last safe habitat indeed. The blokes who likely sought close ...
Kermit the Frog, created by University of Maryland alumnus Jim Henson, will deliver the spring commencement speech in College Park. “Nothing could make these feet happier,” Kermit said.
This frog is named Boophis siskoi after Captain Benjamin Sisko from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.The otherworldly calls of these frogs are known as advertisement calls—a type of self-promotion ...
Cannibalism in animals is more common than you think. In fact, more than 1,500 species have been recorded feeding on their own kind. The reasons behind such gruesome behavior vary, but there is ...
A fringe-lipped bat, Trachops cirrhosus, hears a male túngara frog, Engystomops pustulosus, producing an advertisement call to attract a mate. The bat approaches the calling frog, but the frog ...
Green tree frogs ‘drink’ water through their skin, which also produces a fluid that is thought to be antibacterial and antiviral. The green tree frog communicates with a low, repetitive ‘crawk, crawk, ...
Nearly 600 students, ranging from 6th graders to seniors, will have that opportunity at Virginia Beach's Green Run High School at its 17th annual African American Male Summit. I spoke with some of ...
Endangered male frogs with an unconventional approach to child-rearing have 'given birth' to 33 tiny young in the UK as part of an urgent mission to rescue the species from a devastating fungal ...
An amphibian has lived up to its name, swapping out its usual green coloring for bright blue, in the first-ever record of a magnificent tree frog with this appearance. It's stunned scientists, who ...