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Frog serenade foiled

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Amphibians raise their pitch to counter traffic noise.

Frogs in the Australian metropolis of Melbourne are having trouble getting together to mate, and the culprit is traffic noise, according to Kirsten Parris, an ecologist at the University of Melbourne. One species of frog is even changing the pitch of its love song to be heard above the roar of the road, she reported on 20 August at the International Congress of Ecology in Brisbane, Australia.

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  1. Parris, K. M., Velik-Lord, M. & North, J. M. A. Ecol. Soc. 14, 25 (2009).

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Marris, E. Frog serenade foiled. Nature (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2009.856

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