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Published online 5 November 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021202-5
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Frogs tune call to hole
Good vibrations aid the amphibian mating game.
A Bornean frog tunes its high-pitched call to exploit the acoustics of its tree-hole home and boost its chances of attracting females1.
"The frogs sample the acoustic properties of their holes," says Björn Lardner of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
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