New whites tree from home

[Kurt]

Never heard a female croak. Are you sure you were hearing a female?

[Julia]

Never heard a female croak. Are you sure you were hearing a female?

If you hold the frog gently in your hand with your thumb across the center of its belly, sometimes the male frogs will croak. Their throats swell and they make loud barking noises. I tried this with the one Whites I believe to be a female, and it only makes a tiny squeaky noise. Similar to the male but her throat does not puff up and its not nearly as loud. At night when the boys are singing as loud as they can, the female just sits and looks at them like they are crazy. Other then her little squeak, she does not croak.

[Kurt]

Thats what is called a release call. Both genders do it in a lot of species. It is used by females to let certain males that their attention is unwanted and by males to let other males know they have made a bad choice in a mate. "Get off me dude!"

By no means is this a call or "croak". There are some species in which both genders call, Xenopus laevis comes to mind, but Litoria caerulea is not one of them.

[1beataway]

It is used by females to let certain males that their attention is unwanted and by males to let other males know they have made a bad choice in a mate. "Get off me dude!"

So that's what they were saying! It's fun to hear the squeak when one jumps on top of the other. Luigi is quite the clumsy acrobat.

Well then, perhaps I have two males. Like everyone else, I was under the impression that females will, but not as often and in response to a male. So, I thought Baudrillard was possibly a female since Luigi did it a lot more, and Baudrillard would do it when I played a sound file of White's calling.

[offroad537]

read the form on breeding whites tree frogs on here, Im sure it says under breeding that the female well cork when the male does.

[Kurt]

I wrote the White's treefrog article and there is no part about breeding at all.