Fun fact we just learned: The only frog in the world to actually go “ribbit” is right here in the Pacific Northwest. It’s called the Pacific chorus frog, and Washington made it the official state ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You can hear it in the morning and the evening. It comes from trees, behind bushes and under leaves. Ribbit. Ribbit. Ribbit. It’s ...

Your piece on the Pacific chorus frog was a nice tribute to this amphibian survivor and its champions (HCN, 3/21/2011). Mention of its “ribbits” — only males call — deserves amplification. In 1951, ...

Turns out, most frogs in the world don’t ribbit. Most of them ‘croak’ instead. Jake Skorheim and Shari Elliker try to figure out the difference. And it’s a chance to highlight one very special frog ...

Not long after the snow melts a procession of peeps, trills, chuckles, chortles, snores and bellows begins in the mid-Michigan outdoors. These are not the sounds of humans recovering from serious ...

You can hear it in the morning and the evening. It comes from trees, behind bushes and under leaves. Ribbit. Ribbit. Ribbit. It’s spring — when a young frog’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

It’s spring — when a young frog’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. OK, we can’t say for sure if frogs have the same emotions as humans, but the chorus of croaks coming from the swampier areas ...