Marysville is in for a 'toad-aly' awesome experience when the Avalon Arts Academy presents its production of A Year With Frog ...

It’s Amphibian Week, and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is hopping into celebration by spotlighting one of the ...

Shape matters as well as size in the great range of male frog show-off equipment for competitive seductive serenades.

Fringe-lipped bats, residing in forests from Panama to Brazil, are some of the best listeners in the animal kingdom.

Young fringe-lipped bats learn to hunt safely by listening to frog calls and gaining experience over time in nature.

Scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) found that the fringe-lipped bat, known to eavesdrop on frog and toad mating calls to find its prey, learns to distinguish between ...

Scientists found that the fringe-lipped bat, known to eavesdrop on frog and toad mating calls to find its prey, learns to distinguish between palatable and unpalatable frogs and toads through ...

People volunteering for the Department of Natural Resources Frog and Toad call survey go out after dark, stand still and just listen. Volunteers say the job is easy, but officials say the data ...

The species is known to eavesdrop on frog and toad mating calls to locate its prey and also learns how to tell the difference between unpalatable frogs and toads. The discovery provides the first ...

But fringe-lipped bats have an additional auditory superpower. This woolly, wart-mouthed creature listens for frog and toad mating calls and can tell, just from the sound, which are tasty and ...

The names “toad” and “frog” are both vernacular terms, meaning they’re common names with no scientific foundation. They aren’t tied to any specific family , genus , or even species .