Frogs' Mating Call may Lead Them to Doom

When male tungara frogs attempt to attract females with their mating call from puddles, it creates ripples that is not only used by other male frogs to assess the competition but also by their main predator, the frog-eating bat, which makes the frogs easy targets, a new study conducted by researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama reveals. The tun-gara sound of a tiny rainforest frog known to scientists as iPhysalemus pustulosus/i has ...