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Southeastern and south-central Arkansas Gray tree frog: Dryophytes versicolor (Le Conte, 1825) Apparently secure [10] Usually indistinguishable from Dryophytes chrysoscelis without DNA analysis or analysis of mating call [7] Sometimes put in the genus Hyla: Northwestern Arkansas Spring peeper: Pseudacris crucifer (Wied-Neuwied, 1838) Secure [11]
"The Arkansas Traveler" (also known as "The Arkansaw Traveler") is an American folk song first published by Mose Case, a humorist and guitarist from New York, in 1863. The song was based on the composition "The Arkansas Traveller" by Sandford C. Faulkner and is the Arkansas official historic song .
Spending Winter With a Wood Frog. Wood frogs experience very little of the winter because they are frozen solid for the coldest eight months of the year. This is a high-risk strategy! If ice ...
The spring peeper (Pseudacris crucifer) [3] is a small chorus frog widespread throughout the eastern United States and Canada. [4] It prefers permanent ponds due to its advantage in avoiding predation; however, it is very adaptable with respect to the habitat it can live in.
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.
Pickerel frogs typically emerge from hibernation around mid April with the majority of the frogs arriving at breeding ponds by early May. No fall reproduction has been reported for this species. [13] At the ponds, pickerel frogs are usually observed in large groups in the water. [14] Mating behavior is not much different from other ranids.
Islanders have been asked to become citizen scientists in a bid to help Jersey's newts, frogs and toads. Jersey Biodiversity Centre (JBC) wants people to record wildlife they see in their ponds ...
Cricket frogs are able to communicate and attract each other using a specific frequency of their mating call, that sounds like a cricket. It can only be heard by members of the same population. Cricket frogs from other locales are unable to aurally process other calls, leading to mating isolation among the species.