Reptiles & Amphibians
What's that Sound? It's Frogs in Love
26/Apr/2007 13:04
That nighttime noise is their mood music
By Brian T. Murray, Star-Ledger Staff
Don't blame the birds for that nighttime racket of chirping and whistling.
What's filling the air are the calls of an assortment of toads and frogs -- male toads and frogs to be exact. Most are wildly bleating, bellowing and chirping to attract a female of their species.
A few are just sounding off because it's springtime. it's a real guy thing.
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By Brian T. Murray, Star-Ledger Staff
Don't blame the birds for that nighttime racket of chirping and whistling.
What's filling the air are the calls of an assortment of toads and frogs -- male toads and frogs to be exact. Most are wildly bleating, bellowing and chirping to attract a female of their species.
A few are just sounding off because it's springtime. it's a real guy thing.
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Slithering salamanders shut road in East Brunswick
22/Mar/2007 13:03
Posted by The Star-Ledger
With weather conditions right for this year's salamander migration, officials closed Beekman Road in East Brunswick tonight, and spectators gathered to wait and watch for the amphibians to slither across the roadway, officials said.
the road, between Church Lane and the South Brunswick border, was shut down at dusk tonight and will remain shut until 7 a.m. tomorrow, police said.
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With weather conditions right for this year's salamander migration, officials closed Beekman Road in East Brunswick tonight, and spectators gathered to wait and watch for the amphibians to slither across the roadway, officials said.
the road, between Church Lane and the South Brunswick border, was shut down at dusk tonight and will remain shut until 7 a.m. tomorrow, police said.
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Saving New Jersey's salamanders, frogs, toads
14/Mar/2007 13:04
by Rebecca Santana
Associated Press Writer
Newsday.com
TRENTON, N.J. -- Squish. That's the sound that dozens of volunteers who are working to protect New Jersey's salamanders, frogs and toads do not like to hear.
For the last three years at this time in late winter, dozens of people from around the Garden State have been gathering to prevent carnage to the state's amphibian population.
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Associated Press Writer
Newsday.com
TRENTON, N.J. -- Squish. That's the sound that dozens of volunteers who are working to protect New Jersey's salamanders, frogs and toads do not like to hear.
For the last three years at this time in late winter, dozens of people from around the Garden State have been gathering to prevent carnage to the state's amphibian population.
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