Frogs Adapts Call Frequency to Maximize Babes

BKize writes "Like a teenager turning his guitar amp up to 11, Nature magazine has an article on the discovery that a male Bornean frog tunes its mating call to its home tree cavity to maximize the sound volume, and thereby increase the odds it will attract a female. A lab experiment revealed the frog dynamically adjusts the frequency of the call if the acoustic properties of the cavity change."

Submitter review:

[Anonymous Coward]

Like a teenager turning his guitar amp up to 11, Nature magazine has an article on the discovery that a male Bornean frog tunes its mating call to its home tree cavity to maximize the sound volume, and thereby increase the odds it will attract a female.

Decent analagy, bad grammar.

Re:Submitter review:

[Anonymous Coward]

Decent analagy, bad grammar. Indeed... And may I add spelling? ;o)

hey, me to!

[f64]

i've been trying for years to find the exact tuning and accenturation with which to say "hey baby, come on over here".

no breakthrough as of yet; if any of you accousticly & socially inclined /.ers can give me a hint, i'd appreciate it.


f64 : crack remarks while on crack

Re:hey, me to!

[mess31173]

Here [nsync.com] and here. Don't shoot me I'm just the messenger. :P

So it's like...

[Hard_Code]

"Can you hear me now?!"

/me hides in shame

FrogAMP

[SmartGamer]

That's it! It's a new market that we never thought of before! Sell megaphones to tree frogs! It's a new paradigm!

I can just see the ad campaign now. "Don't bother searching for the perfect tree... use FrogAMP and watch the females hop right to you!" ...sadly, somebody probably would try to sell this.

I'll hate myself for posting this, but...

[Tsar]

I thought the whole point of mating was to do it before you croak.

All kidding aside, wouldn't it be interesting to put these frogs in a set of tuned pipes and let them find their pitch? Find a (humane) way to stimulate them to call on command, and you'd have the world's first amphibious pipe organ.

You'll hate me even more

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, I don't think the amphibious pipe organ would work as described. Part of the organ (the frogs) would be amphibious. But I don't think frogs croak underwater (doesn't that require air?), and the aucoustic properties of the pipes would change if you filled them up with water.

Oh well, I guess it was all just a big pipe dream anyways.

Re:You'll hate me even more

[Dolohov]

But I don't think frogs croak underwater (doesn't that require air?), and the aucoustic properties of the pipes would change if you filled them up with water.

I think he meant amphibian. Frogs croak in air. Pipes need to be filled with air. Just mist `em down every now and then, and you're fine.

And the difference between a tree frog...

[floydigus]

...and a slashdotter?

The slashdotter has less chance of getting kissed by a princess.

Phil

[Anonymous Coward]

Phil Lesh used to play different bass notes at the sound check, in order to find the resonant acoustic frequency of whatever concrete hockey-rink the Grateful Dead happened to be playing. He then hit the note during the concert to great effect. Don't know if he still does this or if it got him laid.