{"id":187394,"date":"2024-04-14T22:23:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T03:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/this-tiny-frog-emits-a-powerful-ultrasonic-scream-no-human-can-hear"},"modified":"2024-04-14T22:23:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T03:23:32","slug":"this-tiny-frog-emits-a-powerful-ultrasonic-scream-no-human-can-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/this-tiny-frog-emits-a-powerful-ultrasonic-scream-no-human-can-hear","title":{"rendered":"This Tiny Frog Emits a Powerful Ultrasonic Scream No Human Can Hear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-tiny-frog-emits-a-powerful-ultrasonic-scream-no-human-can-hear3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atlantic_Forest\">Atlantic Rainforest<\/a> is filled with the ear-piercing \u2018screams\u2019 of a tiny amphibian in distress, but until now, we humans have been oblivious to their cries.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, researchers have recorded South American frogs crying out at a frequency that totally bypasses the human ear \u2013 but which would be quite unpleasant to animals with the right kind of receivers.<\/p>\n<p>The leaf litter frog (<em>Haddadus binotatus) <\/em>is the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haddadus_binotatus\">most abundant species<\/a> of frog in the forest community. Though abundant, they\u2019re tiny \u2013 the largest of the species are females, and even they that barely reach <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haddadus_binotatus\">64 millimeters<\/a> (2.5 inches) in length.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest is filled with the ear-piercing \u2018screams\u2019 of a tiny amphibian in distress, but until now, we humans have been oblivious to their cries. For the first time, researchers have recorded South American frogs crying out at a frequency that totally bypasses the human ear \u2013 but which would be quite unpleasant [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}