Sentence examples for group of frogs from inspiring English sources

But he doesn't think a study on one group of frogs rules out the "lost world" hypothesis for other species.

There's a ditty performed by a couple of adorable ducks ("We're thirsty and we're frightened and our throats may have tightened"), a surreal and vaguely terrifying number about a bunyip and a knee-slapping lark put on by a group of frogs singing about the fun you can have "when you're a frog on a log".

William Hamilton's wonderfully named paper "Geometry for the Selfish Herd" imagines a group of frogs sitting at the edge of a circular pond, from which a snake may emerge - and he supposes that the snake will grab and eat the nearest frog.

This behavior has not been observed in this group of frogs yet, but the fact the females have a 'fleshy' cloacal tube extension seems to indicate the need for directed egg laying.

"Frogs have shown the tendency of being increasingly non aquatic," said Mr Seshadri, adding that the Chalazodes group of frogs "seem to have evolved this adaptation under certain pressures of natural selection".

This research not only lead to the rediscovery of this tree frog, but molecular and morphological evidence collected on these expeditions showed this group of frogs is actually far more diverse than previously thought and warrants the creation of a new genus, Frankixalus.

To compress his argument, Hamilton points out that if there are two groups of frogs around the pool, each group has an equal chance of being targeted, and so does each frog within each group - which means that the chance of being eaten is less if you are a frog in the larger group.

The genetic pool of the frogs has been found to be relatively small, attributed to habitat destruction, which has confined the smaller groups of frogs to isolated pockets and increased the incidence of inbreeding.

Profiling infection using qPCR has shown that both groups of frogs manifest an early peak of infection followed by a reduction in prevalence; this suggests that both groups of frogs are clearing infection however that the frogs held at 'optimal' temperatures clear their infections faster.

This phenomenon is taxonomically widespread and also corroborated by recent studies for other groups of frogs (e.g. Pseudae [58]; Chaunus marinus [59], Central American Brachycephalidae [60] and in other parts of the world [61], [62].

Previous work in two groups of frogs (Scinax ruber and Rhinella margaritifera) included in this study showed that intraspecific diversity clusters into haplogroups for which the diversity is circumscribed between 0 and 0.01 [56].