Froggie Month Continues!
Jun. 7th, 2010 04:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guppiecatYes, there will be a surfeit exclamation points this month, 'cause, well, froggies!
Today we finish up the croaking set. I wish that I had the equipment with me to record what it sounded like, but I didn't. Oh well.
This right here is what all the croaking is about. The male just sorta clings there and the female hops around. (I am assuming hetero-normative amphibian behavior, largely because I know of no studies to the contrary. Please feel free to enlighten me.)
A few profiles:
When I was high school, seniors boys* would drive their trucks around and dangle a sixpack of beer out the window. The girls* would queue up and make their selection based on the brand/condition of truck and type of beer. This is what frogs do instead:
* Rural Illinois was even more hetero-normative than amphibians.
A short expansion sequence:
A slightly longer expansion sequence:
Lastly, these two show you just how much air they use to do this:
Today we finish up the croaking set. I wish that I had the equipment with me to record what it sounded like, but I didn't. Oh well.
This right here is what all the croaking is about. The male just sorta clings there and the female hops around. (I am assuming hetero-normative amphibian behavior, largely because I know of no studies to the contrary. Please feel free to enlighten me.)
A few profiles:
When I was high school, seniors boys* would drive their trucks around and dangle a sixpack of beer out the window. The girls* would queue up and make their selection based on the brand/condition of truck and type of beer. This is what frogs do instead:
* Rural Illinois was even more hetero-normative than amphibians.
A short expansion sequence:
A slightly longer expansion sequence:
Lastly, these two show you just how much air they use to do this:
