Consider the male tree-hole frog of Borneo, which uses his watery den like a pipe organ to proclaim his sexiness far and wide. Evolution has surely outdone itself over the millennia in endowing this ...

When frog males attempt to attract a mate, their loud calls are competing with other males, and the calls of other species. For the females the noise problem is a little like a lively cocktail party.

For frogs, love is noisy. Each spring, swamps, marshes and ponds across the United States become the amphibian equivalent of raucous singles bars as a host of damp-skinned hopefuls from many species ...

Like a teenager hoping his car stereo will attract the attention of girls, male tree frogs in Borneo appear to take advantage of acoustics to attract mates. Researchers have found that males of a ...

Female American green tree frogs use their inflated lungs to dampen the mating calls of other species so they can pick out the ones from males they may mate with. Male frogs use mating calls, ranging ...

The inconsistent sexual signals of male treefrogs have made it more difficult for females to find a quality mate, according to a new study by a researcher at The University of Western Australia. Dr.

Male pug-nosed tree frogs confuse predators by overlapping their mating calls with those their neighbors. Purdue University / Henry Legett Male tungara frogs of Central and South America call out to ...

Most male frogs want their mating call to stand out from the crowd, and they do that by calling when nobody else is. This makes sure that the females hear them loud and clear, and know where they are.

How does the Japanese tree frog figure into the latest work of a noted mathematician? As it turns out, quite prominently. Researchers used the curious mating ritual of male Japanese tree frogs as ...

Grab fast and hang on for hours. A fierce grip is all the courtship finesse a male frog needs in species that reproduce in frenzied mobs. Female European common frogs, however, have at least three ...