Can you hear the peepers sing?

Fun fact: The average spring peeper is about as loud as a lawnmower, at about 90 dB.

In contrast, if you shrunk a human down to spring peeper size (about 4 grams), put them in a quiet room, and told them to yell at the top of their voice, you'd barely be able to hear them: their loudest yell would barely register at 0.0058 dB.

Co-hosts Andrew Dziengel (producer, frog enthusiast) and Charlie Mitchell (phenology coordinator, fellow frog enthusiast) dig in to Minnesota's frog and toad calls, while finding fun facts along the way and trying to figure out how to remember all the different frogs' voices.

Contributed

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Maureen Gibbon via KAXE-KBXE Season Watch Facebook group

Attributions

1. Wood frog individual call by iNaturalist user msmebakken.
2. Wood frog chorus by Adam Heikkila via iNaturalist.
3. Chorus frog individual call by iNaturalist user bayathread.
4. Chorus frog chorus by iNaturalist user jenniferf4.
5. Spring peeper individual call by iNaturalist user jenniferf4.
6. Spring peeper chorus by iNaturalist user jonnytoste.
7. Northern leopard frog individual call by Ben Stubbs via iNaturalist.
8. Leopard frogs in a mixed chorus by iNaturalist user carissab.
9. Gray treefrog individual call by iNaturalist user nottjes.
10. Gray treefrog chorus by iNaturalist user nottjes.
11. American toad individual call by iNaturalist user starrbright651.
12. American toad chorus by Holly Menninger via iNaturalist.
13. Green frog individual by Michael Chergosky via iNaturalist.
14. Mixed chorus of spring peepers and chorus frogs by iNaturalist user jenniferf4.
15. This episode was produced by Andrew Dziengel and Charlie Mitchell.

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