Frogs are immediately associated to their conspicuous vocalizations emitted during the
breeding season. Therefore, many scientists were inspired to study their acoustic …

Among vertebrates, only microchiropteran bats, cetaceans and some rodents are known to
produce and detect ultrasounds (frequencies greater than 20 kHz) for the purpose of …

As the last rays of sunlight disappear from the evening sky, a shallow marsh in Panama
begins to come alive with the calls of frogs and toads. Among these is a small yellow and …

Animal acoustic signals play seminal roles in mate attraction and regulation of male spacing,
maintenance of pairbonds, localization of hosts by parasites, and feeding behavior. Among …

The vertebrate class Amphibia is composed of three orders: the Gymnophiona (caecilians)
or legless amphibians (not known to vocalize), the Urodela (salamanders and newts), and …

Over the last decades, the sub–wavelength hearing capability of small living creatures has
been received huge attention in developing microscale biomimetic sound source …

High background noise is an impediment to signal detection and perception. We report the
use of multiple solutions to improve signal perception in the acoustic and visual modality by …

Anthropogenic noise is widespread in nature and has been shown to produce a plethora of
impacts on wildlife. Sounds play a fundamental role in the lives of amphibians, with species …

Several groups of mammals such as bats, dolphins and whales are known to produce
ultrasonic signals which are used for navigation and hunting by means of echolocation, as …

Sound communication plays a vital role in frog reproduction,, in which vocal advertisement is
generally the domain of males. Females are typically silent, but in a few anuran species they …