CHERRY HILL, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) - Scientists have discovered a new frog species in southern New Jersey that makes some un-froglike sounds. The Atlantic Coast leopard frog groans and makes coughing ...
When a Chiricahua leopard frog wants attention, it snores — at least, its distinctive call sounds like a snore. But the sound of snoring around desert streams, springs and even stock tanks is a lot ...
Southern leopard frogs live almost anywhere there is shallow water, including lakes, ponds, marshes, streams, ditches, canals, mixed hardwood swamps, and cypress swamps. In the summer they will mostly ...
While most everyone has heard of bullfrogs and know what they sound like, I think the quintessential frog — the frog most of us see in our minds when we hear the word "frog" — is something I grew up ...
Months of old-fashioned fieldwork helped define the range and unique characteristics of the recently discovered Atlantic Coast leopard frog. A recent study pinpointed the frog's range along the ...
Not long after ice out — usually early to mid-April — a procession of peeps, trills, chuckles, chortles, snores and bellows begins in the Northern Michigan outdoors. These are not the sounds of humans ...
Just as each bird has a unique call, so does each frog. The call of the tiny boreal chorus frog sounds like someone running a thumbnail over the teeth of a pocket comb. An American toad emits a long ...
Months of old-fashioned scientific fieldwork - more than 2,000 surveys of chirping frog calls, hundreds of photos of individual frogs and tiny tissue samples taken from them - has helped define the ...