For poison dart frogs, mating season is open all year long. Male frogs emit a mating call that attracts nearby females. This chirp signifies that the male actively seeks a partner, as the species ...

To our surprise, we found clear signs of change. When infected with the fungus, male frogs set about fathering more offspring. Before the emergence of the fungus, brisk spring nights across the ...

The researchers point out that, in addition to other factors, there is a likely explanation for the disparity given to male frog calls—they are much louder. Thus, when in the field studying frog ...

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 ...

An endangered frog from the Australian alps is not letting a deadly infectious disease interfere with its love life. University of Melbourne research has found male alpine tree frogs infected with ...

To find out, we used lab and field studies to investigate whether the threat of chytrid infection was forcing these frogs to change. To our surprise, we found clear signs of change. When infected with ...

After further filtering, the number was reduced to 108, which they studied for frog call information. They found 132 instances of female frog calls over 112 species—numbers that represented just ...

Washington - The most popular weedkiller in the United States can give male frogs female sex organs and other attributes, said researchers on Monday, in a study that could shed light on the global ...

Red Ecoacústica Colombia and the University of Missouri System has found that researchers conduct only a fraction of studies of female frog calls compared to male frog ... Locusts have undersized ...

The African reed frog (Hyperolius viridiflavus) can undergo functional sex reversal, with genetic females spontaneously developing into reproductive males complete with functioning testes and male ...