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Article: Ultrasonic frogs can tune their ears to different frequencies.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- August 20, 2008
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Researchers have discovered that a frog that lives near noisy springs in central China can tune its ears to different sound frequencies, much like the tuner on a radio can shift from one frequency to another. It is the only known example of an animal that can actively select what frequencies it hears, the researchers say (see also University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
The findings, from a collaborative effort led by the University of Illinois and the University of California at Los Angeles, appear this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The research team also included scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the ...
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