When rain falls and water is plentiful, the sex lives of plains spadefoot toads are pretty, well, plain. Females prowl ponds for the suitor with the most winsome call; they pair off to couple, ...

Southern Georgia has a rich frog fauna (about 25 species) and the breeding calls of these amphibians resound through the night during wet weather. This year I have received numerous reports from ...

Buried deep beneath the parched desert soils near Kamloops, BC, a female spadefoot toad waits for her moment — the sounds of a specific alarm clock — raindrops. Spadefoots eke out a living in some of ...