Sentences with phrase «frogs in»

The Tree Frog Addendum advised the Buyer about the presence of coqui frogs in the area, and informed them to visit the property at night to see if the frog noise would pose a problem.
When you finish this book, you'll understand why we are all frogs in the buttermilk.
It's been (unscientifically) known for a while; Russians used to put frogs in their milk to keep it from spoiling.
«We don't have the global culture of eating frogs in our minds,» said study author Corey Bradshaw of the University of Adelaide in Australia.
J. Alan Pounds — the resident scientist at the Tropical Science Center's Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve in Costa Rica and the study's lead author — worked with 13 other researchers to pin down the link between rising tropical temperatures and the spread of the deadly chytrid fungus that has wiped out dozens of species of harlequin frogs in recent years.
Climate change may alter amphibian evolution Most of the more than 6,000 species of frogs in the...
Why traditional utilities are like frogs in warming water» Jim Rogers, the recently retired head of Duke Energy, the biggest utility in the US, says regulations and business models will not change quick enough to save traditional utilities in face of solar.
Humans are like frogs in a saucepan of water being gradually heated to boiling.
Despite mounting evidence that such trade could introduce deadly fungal infections (another has devastated frogs in many parts of the world), the groups said:
``... Time magazine's report on global warming's effect on frogs in Costa Rica Jumping on the global warming scare, Time magazine published a special report in their April 3, 2006 issue.
There's more on the challenges of studying frogs in ecosystems disrupted by all manner of human influences in «Booming Field: Studying the Living Vanished,» by Joseph R. Mendelson III, the curator of herpetology at Zoo Atlanta.
Who doesn't want to spend a good few hours punching werewolves, demons, and frogs in the face?
Possess one of the frogs in the opening area, then turn turn left (with the Odyssey behind you) and look into the fog.
Giant, coloured - ball shooting frogs in Mass Effect?
You can also enjoy spotting caiman lizards resting above the water, tree frogs in the foliage, and black caiman lurking in the shallows.
Several frog species will great you at night with a croaking song to inspire you (use the flashlight in the room to help spot the frogs in the palm trees).
Growing up, for me, this region of Mexico was synonymous with spring break partying (think Senor Frogs in Cancun!)
I have not found this to be problematic to the frogs in any way.
or «There really are brightly colored dart frogs in this enclosure.
He chased frogs in my condo complex and loved to play with stuffed animals.
You'll just have to do more to score your book promotion opportunity than express your willingness to diss frogs in public.
I have definitely bought some Bertie Bott's Jelly Beans and Chocolate Frogs in my day.
Tadpoles are frogs in their larval stage.
BAD BLOOD: THE MOVIE USA — Dir: Tim Reis What's the deal with all those frogs in the gas station's makeshift basement laboratory?
She might be a magician's assistant in China, she might be researching frogs in Australia, or she might be making all of it up.
We then enter the Great Hall, where a choir of students with frogs in hand concludes the song with the forceful and ominous phrase, «Something Wicked This Way Comes.»
These directionless scenes (bros jumping around like frogs in the snow, or ranting about the Pope) are uncanny in their realism, proving that a movie that's just a string of scenes can still work if each of those scenes crackles with its own internal drama.
Dawn does, too, almost by accident while she is looking for a plumber to take care of the frogs in the toilet.
We are well aware of how impossibly long it can take to find all of those frogs in order to discover the proverbial Prince or Princess.
They do not know how to go about it, and the whole process of trial and error (see also: kissing a lot of frogs in order to find a prince) can get discouraging after a while.
«The potential consequences to amphibian populations are interesting, including the continual masculinization of frog populations for many generations in habitats contaminated with high concentrations of road salt, which could potentially affect the abundance of frogs in these habitats,» said Relyea.
Nuclear scientists using frogs in a battle against superbugs might sound like some kind of 1980s computer game — but it's actually scientific research underway right now.
Professor in Scientific Computing; Training as an evolutionary biologist working with water frogs in the Mediterranean Sea; Distributor of the Bayesian population genetics inference program MIGRATE.
After surgery to remove the ovaries, he placed the frogs in a tank to recover.
In 2016, scientists discovered that a population of endangered Sierra Nevada yellow - legged frogs in the U.S. appeared to have developed resistance to Bd after infection by the fungus (together with an influx of non-native trout) nearly wiped them out.
Halfwerk's team wanted to find out what happened if the mating calls were obscured by background noise, so they arranged the robot - frogs in such a way that some could only be detected by their croaking while others could also be detected by bats using echolocation.
After measuring millivolt changes in 58 brain cells in frogs in response to sound, the researchers used a mathematical model to convert the information into how much a brain cell was excited or inhibited by a given sound pulse.
I come from Russia, where there is a fairy tale about two frogs in a can of sour cream.
She doesn't doubt that researchers have found frogs in the devastated regions, but wants more rigorous monitoring before talking population trends.
So I was particularly distressed to read Ian Anderson's news that a virus may be wiping out frogs in Australia (This Week, 7 January).
To test whether violacein might protect against the disease, Harris and his team bathed a group of mountain yellow - legged frogs in the salamander skin bacterium while another group went untreated.
Certainly frogs in the southern part of their range are more sensitive to hot years than frogs farther north, where the conditions will not push their physiological tolerances.»
The research team suggested Laterite narrow - mouthed frog to be its common name, as frogs in the Microhyla genus have a smaller mouth compared to other frogs.
Colleen Kamoroff, a former WSU natural resources graduate student, and her advisor Caren Goldberg, an assistant professor in the WSU School of the Environment, used eDNA to detect Bd one month before the pathogen impacted populations of mountain yellowed - legged frogs in Sequoia Kings Canyon National Park in California.
And that helps explain the diversity of frogs in the rainforest, Chouteau says.
To date the researchers have found the fungus in about 30 frog species from Australia, Central America, and the United States and have shown that it kills frogs in laboratory trials.
Then Chouteau packed the frogs in his carryon baggage and flew to Peru.
AUSTIN — For wood frogs in Alaska's interior, Arctic weather is more than a temporary, headline - grabbing phenomenon.
Long before modern refrigeration, people in Russia and Finland reportedly placed living Russian brown frogs in milk to keep it fresh.
To find out if frogs in the wild showed hermaphroditism, Hayes dissected juveniles from numerous sites.
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