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Spring Peeper (Pseudacris crucifer)

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Spring Peeper

AKA Pseudacris crucifer

Spring peepers are a type of chorus frog native to eastern North America! Chorus frogs are named that because of the sound they make, a trill like the sound of locusts! For spring peepers in particular get their name because they make those sounds at the beginning of spring. Which, presumably, they can peep coming!

But that's not all that's interesting about spring peepers! They can also survive below-freezing temperatures, because their organs are prepared to go dormant until things warm up again. And when it gets warmer, they increase their chirping and mating!

Females choose males based on their chirping, and some males instead go for a "satellite" strategy where they hang out near males with good chirps to get with any females that approach them. Truly on that satellite male grindset!

Their scientific name crucifer means cross-bearer, because many have cross-like markings on their sides. Truly, peeping spring is a heavy cross to bear! Or to frog I guess.

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In the Spring I get these frogs in my woods behind my house called "Spring Peepers". At night they just make this insane racket in the woods, which is nice because that means it's Spring, but this year it sounds like there's one singular one close to my house instead of back in the woods like the rest of them because every night, I hear just one frog going "peep! peep! peep! peep! peep!" literally all night

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