After a long and frigid winter, the sound of spring peepers singing from beaver bogs is a welcome one for New Englanders. But before frogs can start their songs, a massive migration has to take place.

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In A Nutshell: Male frog calls change with water temperature: Warmer water produces faster, shorter calls while cold water ...

Zak Mertz holds a spring peeper frog, moments before setting it free next to a vernal pool in Weymouth, Mass. Inside the New England Wildlife Center in Weymouth, Zak Mertz pointed to what he called a ...

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Researchers noted that as water became hotter in ponds, mating calls of male frogs became quicker and more desperate.

Frogs started emerging from the forest, faster than the volunteers could count, on their way to the vernal pools where they mate and lay their eggs The volunteers gathered by the roadway wet with warm ...