Weekly Update on My Wood Frog Vocalization Experiment :)

[frogluver]

Hmm, well, all you can do now is... do the experiment again!

Haha, totally! Now I just have to first finish Test A with the other 3 frogs.

In about an hour and a half I'm going to run Test A with frog 5 (Lil' Piggy). We'll see how this one goes ;D!

[LazyEyedFroggie]

Awesome! I'm sure some very intriguing results will reveal themselves

[frogluver]

Awesome! I'm sure some very intriguing results will reveal themselves

Haha, I hope so!

[frogluver]

Guess what !!

The frog that I just finished testing with last week (frog 6....Lil' Porker), croaked this morning 8 times at about 7:49 am!! I didn't even have the Wood frog vocalizations playing and the conditions were normal living conditions, 65-70 F temps about 60% humidity.....nothing that resembled the mating conditions as Test A is meant to mimic.

It had to be the barometric pressure.....it snowed really hard yesturday and there was 25 mph winds. This morning though it was pretty calm outside, but overcast. It was silent and dark in the house when he croaked too. Hmmmmm.......

[LazyEyedFroggie]

Fascinating... He's happy

[Poly]

Guess what !!

The frog that I just finished testing with last week (frog 6....Lil' Porker), croaked this morning 8 times at about 7:49 am!! I didn't even have the Wood frog vocalizations playing and the conditions were normal living conditions, 65-70 F temps about 60% humidity.....nothing that resembled the mating conditions as Test A is meant to mimic.

It had to be the barometric pressure.....it snowed really hard yesturday and there was 25 mph winds. This morning though it was pretty calm outside, but overcast. It was silent and dark in the house when he croaked too. Hmmmmm.......

Autumn, maybe even though they are WC amphibians, they have adjusted to terrarium life, considering that you caught them as juveniles, and that they have grown up in captivity, is it possible that they don't recognize their "mating conditions"?

Glad to hear he finally croaked!

[frogluver]

Fascinating... He's happy

Haha, he croaked again later that day (with some Scottish folk music playing in the background....he was in the mood for singing lol) 6 times too ! He is happy!

Autumn, maybe even though they are WC amphibians, they have adjusted to terrarium life, considering that you caught them as juveniles, and that they have grown up in captivity, is it possible that they don't recognize their "mating conditions"?

Glad to hear he finally croaked!

So I have total of 4 wood frogs....2 adult males and 2 juveniles. During the Wood frog mating season of this year, I captured the adults. I navigated the pond via canoe and located the adults by their calls (it was sooo fun). So the adults I didn’t raise. And then I captured the juveniles during their fall migration to higher grounds, so I’m raising them now ;D.

What you said makes perfect sense though. I had a juvenile WF four years ago that I raised and he called spontaneously once he matured. It was the funniest thing…..the TV was on, he would croak; the heater came on he would croak; the family would laugh, he would croak! It was like you said, he didn’t seem to know the right “mating conditions” .

Haha yup...me too !

[frogluver]

Oh, and the same frog croaked again this morning at 6:58, hehe!! Maybe he can sense the incredibly warm temperatures we are experiencing from a Chinook that's coming through. We are having 45F temps and some rain in the middle of winter! Last week we had -25F weather. That’s about a difference of 70 degrees. And tonight……we are expecting to have 30 to 55 mph winds and 4+ inches of snow, blizzard conditions. So unusual for the interior of Alaska.

And I have some exciting news to shed about Frog 5 (Lil’ Piggy) who is in the middle of the experiment right now. But I think I’ll be a little evil and make you guys wait until Monday when I write my report/conclusion for Frog 5 hehehehe ;P!!