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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."

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

    "Can you hear me now?!"

    /me hides in shame

    --

    It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
  2. 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.