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What you're watching here is a Chinese flying tree frog vaulting onto a pole simulating a tree branch.
And their limbs are about equal in size — this helps them climb, leap and land from branch to branch. The frog we found in the milkweed is either an eastern gray tree frog or a cope’s tree frog.
That’s a frog embryo, leaving its egg to enter the world, and this embryo can hatch at will. The red-eyed tree frog lays its eggs on a branch or leaf above the water. Once they’re in the last ...
Tree frogs have sacrificed the ability to see ultraviolet (UV) light to focus on the fine details. Research led by scientists at the Museum is bringing clarity to our understanding of frog vision, ...
Researchers have found that male red-eyed tree frogs communicate with one another through vibrations caused by shaking plant branches.
When it comes to laying eggs, tree frogs have some unusual habits. Instead of always laying their eggs on tree branches where they usually live, they often lay their eggs on the ground. But why ...
Wrapped around the branches of a coconut tree, the slitherer doesn't appear to be particularly interested in the frog - although it does give it an inquisitive sniff once or twice.
They look cuddly, but red-eyed treefrogs have a secret dark side. When Michael Caldwell, Smithsonian postdoctoral fellow, filmed the frogs under infrared light he saw a curious behavior: they ...
Tree frogs use a kind of seismic vibration to shake off unwelcome rivals, new research finds. IN WHAT APPEARS TO be a tantrum, red-eyed tree frogs of Central America use vibration to ward off ...
Some frogs are, like, so nervous.” Maybe that’s why the red-eyed tree frog has gotten famous, with its picture on so many calendars, I suggest—they’re easier to photograph than other frogs.
Tree frogs living in tropical rainforests send messages to each other by vibrating the branches of the plants they live on, scientists have found.
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