Jul 7, 2025
Do you ever sing to the frogs when you're out in the field?
My mom & I moved to the TX coast from the high (& very, very dry) plains and there's so many frogs here! They like to hide from the sun under our porch and sing all evening, they go CHEEP TRRREEP, PEEP PREEEP. Sometimes I'll mimic them and we cheep at each other for an hour, and I think of tumblr's resident Frog Man every time.
all the time. So much that my colleagues get annoyed when they are following a frog call and then it turns out it was just me whistling to try to get the frogs to answer (and they often do)
#science#frog science#batrachology#herpetology#it's only weird if they don't answer#there are some genera that I can mimic really well#so I can often solicit calling activity#which is great for enabling me to get their recordings#but yes it is understandable that this does annoy colleagues in close proximity#answers by Mark#anon#anonymous#thanks for thinking of me anon!
