Fall masquerade.(frogs and seasonal adaptations)(Brief Article)

Publication: Natural History

Publication Date: 01-OCT-05

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If spring in the Minnesota woods sings, autumn exhales softly. Take the inch-long spring peeper, Pseudacris crucifer, a chorus frog that lives among leaf litter and logs, near freshwater ponds. Its size and coloring make it easy to miss. The one pictured here didn't make a sound or move...

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