You can hear the choruses of male wood frogs in vernal pools during the early spring. It’s not the birds or the bees in this story. It’s actually frogs. Wood frogs, it turns out, start their ...

The warmer weather is enough to inspire anyone to sing with joy, but for animals like wood frogs, or Rana sylvatica, their tune means something else. For the first time, researchers from Dartmouth ...

A fancy camera offers new insight into the distinct calls of a springtime male wood frog chorus. By Sabrina Imbler In the winter, the woods of New Hampshire are littered with small, frozen frogs ...

Wood frog mating calls echo through parts of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The frogs breed on warm winter days and this January has been very mild.

The wood frog is one of the first frog species to emerge in late winter in the Northern U.S. and Canada, and from afar their distinctive calls can be mistaken for the sound of ducks or chickens.

Spring is usually the season associated with frog calls. It’s a thrill to hear the first spring peepers and wood frogs sending their songs into the chilly April evenings, assuring us that winter ...

Wood frogs are a relatively small species of frog (especially when compared to green frogs or bullfrogs) with adults ranging from just 1.5 to 3.25 inches in length.

The male frogs gather in early spring to call (sounding to human ears like something between a human burp and a turkey gobble). To female wood frogs, though, it’s apparently a signal that males ...

Some call the frog pee a type of antifreeze, but study co-author Jon Costanzo, a zoologist at Miami University in Ohio, ... Wood frogs live all over America and in the Arctic Circle.

WASHINGTON — If you’ve ever been unable to find a bathroom in a moment of need, you know the gotta-go feeling. That’s nothing compared to the wood frog, which doesn’t urinate all winter ...