An Atlantic Coast leopard frog (Rana kauffeldi). This newly identified species lives in wetlands from Connecticut to North Carolina.
Brian Curry/Rutgers University
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Frogs. Amphibians. Croaking animals. Creatures. Slimy. What else can ya call 'em? But this is interesting. I agree with the scientists in the sense that it would be hard to hear that noise of the frog in NYC. Well, it wouldn't be hard, it's the biggest city, but still. Staten Island is a really popular place, so someone should really have heard it between now and 1937. The guy who discovered the frog in 1937 was a genius. I mean, he did not have proof but if you just listened to that new frog call video it would seem like it would be impossible to miss, especially in New York, with 8.4 million people (Yes I looked it up, don't question me!) This is a great article. It is really informative about frogs.
This article is great way to learn about how there are many plants and animals ripe for the discovery. That fact that we can only just find a new species of animal in a highly desnse and populated city shows so much about what we can learn if we jsut look a little bit deeper. This article is jsut amazing
I think it is really cool why you discover something new like a whole nee species living there all the time and you didn't even notice especially in a city like New York with 8.4 million people. They are geniuses because I would never be able to tell if a frog was sick so it had a different croak or it was a whole different species that I had passed. Also Staten Island is really popular and it took us so long to figure it out even though frogs are very small and Staten Island is really big. Overall this was a very great discovery. I have a few questions though. First, if a guy discovered it in 1937, then why is it in the newspaper now? Also, why did it take them so long to separate it from the northern leopard frog?
Wow. This is really cool. I like that over 70 years ago one person thought this was a new species, and now we confirmed that it is. It goes to show that you should never give up, and that there are so many more species of animals to learn about. What I don't understand is why they didn't hear the frog's croak when Kauffeld first thought it was new. Now they finally heard it and that is why they now know that it is new. I think that this article could be a bit more detailed, but it was good. It really taught me a lot about frogs and their different kinds of croaks.
It's really interesting how there are so many types of species of frogs that are all so similar with only slight differences. It makes me think of how humans (Homo sapiens) the only species of its genus, homo, that are still living today. It seems amazing when you compare us, one of a kind, to the vast species of insects or frogs.
This article is really thought provoking. How could skilled biologists not recognize the frog to be a different species for over 70 years? I thought that it was so interesting that even though it looked almost exactly like a leopard frog that the only way they could tell that the frog was special was the sound of its croak. I am really surprised that nobody on the east coast since 1937 had assumed it was a new species, not a strange form of a leopard frog. This article really showed me that it doesn't matter if you are a biologist from the 40's or the 21st century, but that you need patience and solid evidence to truly discover something completely new.
I think that this article was very interesting. Whenever scientists discover a new species I always get excited.I can see how scientists could have confused the two species because of their very similar looks, but being able to have evidence besides looks to prove a new species really helps. I am surprised scientists were skeptical about this new species because listening to the calls, they sound very different.
I am in AWE right now! This is wow! Who knew (besides the scientists) you can tell a frog apart with their croak! Maybe you know, but I didn't know! That is a great and interesting fact to learn. I am glad I know it now. The croaks frogs make sound unique. Also it is quite cool how the male frogs' call, to attract attention from the ladies, is studied by 7 features. They are: how long the call lasts, how long it takes, from when a call started, until it becomes the loudest, and the time between the first and last pulses in a call. The northern leopard frogs' call sounds like a snore, and the southern leopard frogs' croak sounds like, "ak-ak-ak." It is reasonable to think the frogs have the same species because they are both in the "Rana" family. We could've know this type of frog existed 70 years ago, but too bad Carl Kauffeld didn't have the evidence. Everything happens for a reason, right? So that's okay.
In Ney York City everything is hard to find including a small frog on the popular Staten Island. Certain times people discover things on accident showing that you just have to be in the right place at the right time to catch a new type of frog. I also agree with Justin why put it into the paper so late?
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Frogs. Amphibians. Croaking animals. Creatures. Slimy. What else can ya call 'em? But this is interesting. I agree with the scientists in the sense that it would be hard to hear that noise of the frog in NYC. Well, it wouldn't be hard, it's the biggest city, but still. Staten Island is a really popular place, so someone should really have heard it between now and 1937. The guy who discovered the frog in 1937 was a genius. I mean, he did not have proof but if you just listened to that new frog call video it would seem like it would be impossible to miss, especially in New York, with 8.4 million people (Yes I looked it up, don't question me!) This is a great article. It is really informative about frogs.
This article is great way to learn about how there are many plants and animals ripe for the discovery. That fact that we can only just find a new species of animal in a highly desnse and populated city shows so much about what we can learn if we jsut look a little bit deeper. This article is jsut amazing
I think it is really cool why you discover something new like a whole nee species living there all the time and you didn't even notice especially in a city like New York with 8.4 million people. They are geniuses because I would never be able to tell if a frog was sick so it had a different croak or it was a whole different species that I had passed. Also Staten Island is really popular and it took us so long to figure it out even though frogs are very small and Staten Island is really big. Overall this was a very great discovery. I have a few questions though. First, if a guy discovered it in 1937, then why is it in the newspaper now? Also, why did it take them so long to separate it from the northern leopard frog?
Wow. This is really cool. I like that over 70 years ago one person thought this was a new species, and now we confirmed that it is. It goes to show that you should never give up, and that there are so many more species of animals to learn about. What I don't understand is why they didn't hear the frog's croak when Kauffeld first thought it was new. Now they finally heard it and that is why they now know that it is new. I think that this article could be a bit more detailed, but it was good. It really taught me a lot about frogs and their different kinds of croaks.
It's really interesting how there are so many types of species of frogs that are all so similar with only slight differences. It makes me think of how humans (Homo sapiens) the only species of its genus, homo, that are still living today. It seems amazing when you compare us, one of a kind, to the vast species of insects or frogs.
This article is really thought provoking. How could skilled biologists not recognize the frog to be a different species for over 70 years? I thought that it was so interesting that even though it looked almost exactly like a leopard frog that the only way they could tell that the frog was special was the sound of its croak. I am really surprised that nobody on the east coast since 1937 had assumed it was a new species, not a strange form of a leopard frog. This article really showed me that it doesn't matter if you are a biologist from the 40's or the 21st century, but that you need patience and solid evidence to truly discover something completely new.
I think that this article was very interesting. Whenever scientists discover a new species I always get excited.I can see how scientists could have confused the two species because of their very similar looks, but being able to have evidence besides looks to prove a new species really helps. I am surprised scientists were skeptical about this new species because listening to the calls, they sound very different.
I am in AWE right now! This is wow! Who knew (besides the scientists) you can tell a frog apart with their croak! Maybe you know, but I didn't know! That is a great and interesting fact to learn. I am glad I know it now. The croaks frogs make sound unique. Also it is quite cool how the male frogs' call, to attract attention from the ladies, is studied by 7 features. They are: how long the call lasts, how long it takes, from when a call started, until it becomes the loudest, and the time between the first and last pulses in a call.
The northern leopard frogs' call sounds like a snore, and the southern leopard frogs' croak sounds like, "ak-ak-ak." It is reasonable to think the frogs have the same species because they are both in the "Rana" family. We could've know this type of frog existed 70 years ago, but too bad Carl Kauffeld didn't have the evidence. Everything happens for a reason, right? So that's okay.
In Ney York City everything is hard to find including a small frog on the popular Staten Island. Certain times people discover things on accident showing that you just have to be in the right place at the right time to catch a new type of frog. I also agree with Justin why put it into the paper so late?
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