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Frogs Adapts Call Frequency to Maximize Babes

Posted by Hemos on from the helllOOOO-LADIES dept.

BKize writes "Like a teenager turning his guitar amp up to 11, Nature magazine has an article on the discovery that a male Bornean frog tunes its mating call to its home tree cavity to maximize the sound volume, and thereby increase the odds it will attract a female. A lab experiment revealed the frog dynamically adjusts the frequency of the call if the acoustic properties of the cavity change."

15 comments

  1. Submitter review: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
    Like a teenager turning his guitar amp up to 11, Nature magazine has an article on the discovery that a male Bornean frog tunes its mating call to its home tree cavity to maximize the sound volume, and thereby increase the odds it will attract a female.

    Decent analagy, bad grammar.

    1. Re:Submitter review: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Decent analagy, bad grammar. Indeed... And may I add spelling? ;o)

    2. Re:Submitter review: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I noticed that myself... No time to preview or reread when going for first posts, though... Especially since there's no way to tell whether it's a section story or a front page one when you use the 'Collapse All Sections' option.

    3. Re:Submitter review: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I was much more disturbed by the lack of subject-verb agreement in the title than by the misplaced modifier in the summary, though come to think of it, I can't figure why Nature magazine's having an article of any sort would be like a teenager turning his amp to 11. :-)

  2. hey, me to! by f64 · · Score: 3, Funny

    i've been trying for years to find the exact tuning and accenturation with which to say "hey baby, come on over here".

    no breakthrough as of yet; if any of you accousticly & socially inclined /.ers can give me a hint, i'd appreciate it.


    f64 : crack remarks while on crack

    1. Re:hey, me to! by mess31173 · · Score: 1

      Here and here. Don't shoot me I'm just the messenger. :P

  3. So it's like... by Hard_Code · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Can you hear me now?!"

    /me hides in shame

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  4. Pirate Frogs! by edbarrett · · Score: 0

    Poor hearing on the part of female Borneo tree frogs is God's Access Control Device. The male Borneo tree frogs are using an illegal hollow tree to bypass said ACD, and are therefore in violation of the DMCA against God.

    God's lawyers are busy writing up the cease and desists right now. I'd hate to be a tree frog.

  5. FrogAMP by SmartGamer · · Score: 1

    That's it! It's a new market that we never thought of before! Sell megaphones to tree frogs! It's a new paradigm!

    I can just see the ad campaign now. "Don't bother searching for the perfect tree... use FrogAMP and watch the females hop right to you!" ...sadly, somebody probably would try to sell this.

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  6. "maximize babes" by ignorant_newbie · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    and the poor human babes have to turn to surgery and saline to get maximized.

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  7. I'll hate myself for posting this, but... by Tsar · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I thought the whole point of mating was to do it before you croak.

    All kidding aside, wouldn't it be interesting to put these frogs in a set of tuned pipes and let them find their pitch? Find a (humane) way to stimulate them to call on command, and you'd have the world's first amphibious pipe organ.

  8. And the difference between a tree frog... by floydigus · · Score: 2

    ...and a slashdotter?

    The slashdotter has less chance of getting kissed by a princess.

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  9. You'll hate me even more by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Actually, I don't think the amphibious pipe organ would work as described. Part of the organ (the frogs) would be amphibious. But I don't think frogs croak underwater (doesn't that require air?), and the aucoustic properties of the pipes would change if you filled them up with water.

    Oh well, I guess it was all just a big pipe dream anyways.

    1. Re:You'll hate me even more by Dolohov · · Score: 2
      But I don't think frogs croak underwater (doesn't that require air?), and the aucoustic properties of the pipes would change if you filled them up with water.

      I think he meant amphibian. Frogs croak in air. Pipes need to be filled with air. Just mist `em down every now and then, and you're fine.

  10. Phil by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Phil Lesh used to play different bass notes at the sound check, in order to find the resonant acoustic frequency of whatever concrete hockey-rink the Grateful Dead happened to be playing. He then hit the note during the concert to great effect. Don't know if he still does this or if it got him laid.