University of Wisconsin researcher Barrett Klein’s robotic tungara frogs call to females. Amid cuts to federal funding, US universities tighten budgets, forcing PhD students and early-career ...

Female túngara frogs have a limited cognitive ability to recognize increasing elaboration in male mating calls. Fringe-lipped bats that hunt the singing males also have a limited cognitive ...

Andrew Cronin The túngara frog has a rich history of research, predominantly with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Starting in the 1970s, primarily through the research of Michael ...

[Cover article] Mangiamele, L.A. and Burmeister, S.S. 2011. Auditory selectivity for acoustic features that confer species recognition in the tungara frog. Journal of Experimental Biology ...

In this undated photo provided by researchers in December 2018, a male tungara frog in Panama uses his vocal sac to call out in Gamboa, Panama. A study released on Monday, Dec. 10, 2018, examines why ...

Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where she started as an intern in 2009 after receiving a master’s degree from Indiana University in April 2009 studying the mating behavior of seahorses.

Male túngara frog calling within a chorus in Gamboa, Panama. Males gather in choruses to advertise for potential mates. Females approach male callers and show preferences for males based on call ...