Photo by Nick ShouDepending on where you're from, El Sapo Cancionero—Spanish for “The Singing Frog”—is either the title of an obscure Argentinean folk song or the name of a restaurant in Mexico City's ...

"O Sapo não lava o pé" (the frog doesn't wash its feet) is the kind of song every Brazilian child learns before they can read ...

A frog in Anhui Province in China warbles and flutes with so much versatility that researchers, upon first hearing it, couldn’t believe it was what it is. Frog calls rarely show a lot of diversity, ...

CAIMITO, Puerto Rico — The resounding calls of “ko-KEE, ko-KEE” ring out in a cadence that brings music to Puerto Rican nights. The tiny frog that produces the melody is named coqui after its ...

The morning is calm and cool as I walk to the lake for an early paddle. I quickly note that the lake level is up, thanks to recent July rainstorms. The floating circular leaves of white water lilies ...

Every other Friday, the Outside/In team here at NHPR answers listener questions about the natural world. Today's question comes from Andy, calling from Dover, New Hampshire. Alejandro Vélez: That is a ...

Summer evenings, particularly after a rain storm, bring a chorus of frogs and toads with an oddly pleasing harmony of bleats, rattles, trills and chirps. Frogs and toads singing in unison create a ...

We humans have come up with some poetic collective nouns for animals. A murder of crows. A parliament of owls. Even a shrewdness of apes (now also the name of a band). So it seems we missed the ...