Researchers at a far north Queensland university say the key to trapping toads could lie in a seductive mating call. Professor Ross Alford from James Cook University in Cairns says they are working on ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Sunshine Coast. Followed categories will be added to My News. North Queensland scientists hopped onto the strange finding while researching effective sounds to ...

Staff from the Conservation Department will patrol the wetlands at Mawson Lakes with spotlights and recordings of cane toad calls, searching for the pests. Authorities are pulling out all stops to ...

AN INNOVATIVE new trap using light and sound to trap toxic amphibians was developed using cane toad research findings from James Cook University studies. The Toadinator trap mimics cane toad calls to ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Cane toads are a real Aussie success story – for themselves, at least. But research has produced a new kind of trap that may help stop their insidious march south. The new ...

MADISON (WKOW) -- Now that it's warming up, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is looking for "froggers" to lend an ear to document frog and toad calls. The Wisconsin Frog and Toad Survey ...

Cane toads are invasive frogs that threaten the survival of several Australian wildlife species. Scientists and conservation managers have long grappled with how to stop the toad’s march across the ...

Scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) found that the fringe-lipped bat, known to eavesdrop on frog and toad mating calls to find its prey, learns to distinguish between ...

A fringe-lipped bat, Trachops cirrhosus, approaches a Fitzinger's robber frog, Craugastor fitzingeri, in Panama. This species of bat eavesdrops on the mating calls that male frogs produce to attract ...

During Panama’s wet season, forests boom with a chorus of túngara frog mating calls as males compete for females’ attention.But these calls put the frogs in a precarious position between sex and death ...

To source their food, some predators eavesdrop on calls emitted by prey. Fringe-lipped bats, which range from Panama to Brazil, are some of the most skilled eavesdroppers in the world. They are ...