Update on the experimental situation:

So I have successfully completed Test A, reproducing mating conditions. Overall observations? Some rare signs of phonotaxis in frogs 8 and possibly 9, swollen vocal sacs in frog 5, and 1 croak from frog 6. However, after frog 5 was tested, there was an explosion of activity in the normal living conditions terrarium. For the past 4 weeks, this frog as been vocalizing almost every other night and has twice tried to mate with his tank mate, frog 6 which is also a male. This gave me reason to believe that the conditions that I presented in Test A, which were meant to be the mating conditions, in fact manipulated the frogs into believing it was time to hibernate. This makes sense as I had the frogs in a warm environment, and then brought them into a colder environment. Also, when brought down into Test A conditions, all 4 frogs became sluggish, buried into the moss, and became slightly or significantly bloated (which they soon lost upon being brought back up into the normal living conditions). These behaviors are characteristic to pre-hibernation behaviors seen in the wild.

Now I am ready to undertake Test B, in which I test the frogs for phonotaxis and vocalization responses in normal living conditions (or summer conditions). These conditions include 65F-75F temperatures, 60-70% humidity, and 15 hours of daylight. But before I dive into this test, I need to take care of some heating issues. Test B is expected to start next week (Jan. 2, 2012).
What are my predictions for Test B? Well….I am quite hopeful that there will be some vocalization activity and phonotaxis that will occur, but then again I’m not entirely sure. We shall soon discover!

Coming soon to this thread…
A video of the possible phonotaxis observed and recorded from Test A! And recordings of the vocalizations gathered outside of the experiment! Stay tuned lolol !!