Intelligence in Frogs
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Vocal communication in frogs.
The robust nature of vocal communication in frogs has long attracted the attention of natural philosophers and their biologically inclined successors. Each frog species produces distinctive calls that facilitate pre-mating reproductive isolation and thus speciation. In many terrestrial species, a chorus of simultaneously calling males attracts females to breeding sites; reproductive females the...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1884
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/030465b0