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In other ways Minn of the Mississippi is typical of mid-twentieth century animal stories for children. Librarian Walter Hogan explains that mid-twentieth-century authors were "careful not to ascribe complex mental states to animals, and they avoid[ed] representing any animal's thoughts and feelings as if they were equivalent to humans."
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The spring peeper can live an estimated three years in the wild. [33] By looking at the different shading/coloring of concentric rings in the skeletons of spring peepers, age can be determined regarding the way of bone growth. Darker lines coincide with periods of higher survival rates during winter months.
In the spring, when the shrub is flowering, moths lay their eggs on the shrub's hanging seedpods. When the eggs hatch, tiny larvae bore into the immature green pods and begin to devour the seeds. The pods ripen, fall to the ground and separate into three smaller segments, and those segments are called Mexican jumping beans.
Adults will typically have the basic two molt cycle changing to basic or partial in the late summer or fall, and then back to alternate again in the spring. Males of tropical species will have the same coloration year-round. Females of all species are either drabber in coloration by comparison, often having a lighter coloration of the males.
The animals made slightly different sounds when communicating with different individual bats, especially those of the opposite sex. [228] In the highly sexually dimorphic hammer-headed bat ( Hypsignathus monstrosus ), males produce deep, resonating, monotonous calls to attract females.