I know almost nothing about frogs really and am happy to admire them from a distance. My mom always had a very positive attitude towards them: “If you can hear frogs in the garden, there (probably) aren’t any snakes.” and of course this was very useful as South Africa has some rather nasty snakes and children Played Outside.
I have just push live a Network Protocol entitled A method for quantifying phonotaxis in the concave-eared torrent frog which gives details for a method used in the Nature paper Ultrasonic frogs show hyperacute phonotaxis to female courtship calls. And was very pleased by the ideas of “phonotaxis” and “ultrasonic frog”.
You might want to check out this figure from the Nature paper. I wonder what that frog is tying to do to the loudspeaker…
It’s okay, Bronwen, the speaker has a diaphragm.
Why does a frog lick its eyes?
Cue Dr Alan Cann’s Virtual Frogroom for muchos froggy stuff.
_ South Africa has some rather nasty snakes and children _
Whereas Australia has some rather nasty spiders and children.