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Frogs and toads produce a rich variety of sounds, calls, and songs during their courtship and mating rituals. The callers, usually males, make stereotyped sounds in order to advertise their location, their mating readiness and their willingness to defend their territory; listeners respond to the calls by return calling, by approach, and by going silent.
Certain words in the English language represent animal sounds: the noises and vocalizations of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for communication. The words can be used as verbs or interjections in addition to nouns , and many of them are also specifically onomatopoeic .
The sound of the flowing water overpowers the advertisement call, so they must advertise by other means. An alternative use of the vocal sac is employed by the frogs of the family Rhinodermatidae . The males of the two species of this family scoop recently hatched tadpoles into their mouth, where they move into the vocal sac.
The young toads and the adult toads consume insects, such as flies and beetles, shrimp and larvae; but also annelid worms and terrestrial arthropods. Fire-bellied toads are sometimes active during the day, but are more so during the night. The mating call of the male sounds like a dog's bark, rather than the typical drawn out croaking groan.
The toads nearly press their snout to the chest or throat of the other male. During the conflict, both males make single clicks to each other, which resembles the sound that they normally use during breeding. If the toads have eye contact, they make a rapid series of these clicks. This process shows no visible movement of the vocal system.
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How do cicadas make noise? PJ Liesch holds up a male 17-year cicada and shows the tymbal under its wings. The tymbal is the small white section of the insect with thin, black lines. The cicada ...
Spadefoot toads stay hidden underground in a low energy state, and are awakened by low frequency sounds of thunder. [7] > They then dig their way to the surface. After a thunderstorm, a previously silent dry area may start to sound like a marshy swamp, as the toads quickly seek mates in the short time available before desert puddles dry up.