Wednesday, September 4, 2013
9/4 Weird Frog
An interesting discovery has been made concerning a species of tiny frogs, called the Gardiner's frog, that were originally believed to be deaf because they had no ears or eardrums. Using x-rays, researchers in Paris have discovered that these peculiar little frog actually hear using their mouths. The frogs receive the sound through their heads, and special tissues in the mouth detect and amplify the frequencies, then send them to the inner ear. To prove this assertion, scientists used loudspeakers in the rainforest to play the croaking sound of the Gardiner's frog, and the male frogs responded to the call.
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