Photo by Nick ShouDepending on where you're from, El Sapo Cancionero—Spanish for “The Singing Frog”—is either the title of an obscure Argentinean folk song or the name of a restaurant in Mexico City's ...
The morning is calm and cool as I walk to the lake for an early paddle. I quickly note that the lake level is up, thanks to recent July rainstorms. The floating circular leaves of white water lilies ...
Every other Friday, the Outside/In team here at NHPR answers listener questions about the natural world. Today's question comes from Andy, calling from Dover, New Hampshire. Alejandro Vélez: That is a ...
A frog in Anhui Province in China warbles and flutes with so much versatility that researchers, upon first hearing it, couldn’t believe it was what it is. Frog calls rarely show a lot of diversity, ...
We humans have come up with some poetic collective nouns for animals. A murder of crows. A parliament of owls. Even a shrewdness of apes (now also the name of a band). So it seems we missed the ...
Summer evenings, particularly after a rain storm, bring a chorus of frogs and toads with an oddly pleasing harmony of bleats, rattles, trills and chirps. Frogs and toads singing in unison create a ...
For some people, spring begins with the sound of birds. For me, it’s frogs. All winter, in places that have real winters, frogs crouch hidden in the leaves, their outsides frozen so hard they’d make a ...
April is such an amazing month of change and we have seen it again this year. Early, we had temperatures of less than 10 degrees and a week later, we climbed to 70 degrees. In this warmth, melting of ...
Wynn Las Vegas, in partnership with Tenaya Creek Brewery, is launching “The Singing Frog,” a premium lager sold exclusively at Wynn Las Vegas and Tenaya Creek taproom in Downtown Las Vegas. In ...
Researchers using an 'acoustic camera' discover how individual songs in an amphibian chorus influence mating in wood frogs. Researchers using advanced recording technology have identified how ...