Poor frogs. Their skin is leaky. It lets things in. Things your skin would never let in, at least in such quantities. Pesticides. Herbicides. Frogicides. Presumably this goes partway to explaining their rapid disappearance from the Book of Life. Frogs are in trouble. Fifteen years ago biologists began to report that frogs were, um, missing. [...]
Driving home last night in the rain it took a moment to realize the fluttering objects in the headlights weren’t leaves. They were frogs. I pounded the brakes and got home without squashing any little hopes and dreams. From the human perspective it seems so random: Rainy night, road suddenly covered with salamanders, toads, frogs. [...]
Peep recording The “spring peeper,” for those in the western half of the country, is a mini-frog that makes a major racket. Just an inch long, the little guys inflate a vocal sack that nearly doubles their size, then empty that sack with a prodigious PEEP. This do this many times a minute, competing with [...]
