Cinderella Lab Report

Reproduction. The underlying goal for every single organism on earth. All creatures, large and small, have their own way of producing offspring. Many bacteria and plants produce asexually, which means they do not require a sexual partner in order to reproduce. For many other creatures such as reptiles, amphibians, mammals, and many other creatures, A sexual partner is required. Each type of organism has there own way to attract mates. Birds like turkeys fane out their tails to impress potential mates. Fireflies glow up. All of these mating displays are visual, but for creatures like the frog's, auditorial cues are relied upon. In the case of the Barking tree frogs of Florida’s Apalachicola national forest, Scientists have used …show more content…
The reason distance is so important is because the longer the female has to travel towards the male, the more at risk she is to being confronted by predators They came up with 3 hypothesis. The first hypothesis was that the frogs simply judged the loudness of the croak to determine how close potential mates were. The second hypothesis was that the females listened to degradation of sound to determine how far potential mates were. The third hypothesis is that female frogs relied on a sound gradient to judge distance. Although scientists have had their theories, testing them was the tricky part In the first test, two speakers were placed at different distances from a female frog. Each one played the sounds of barking male frogs, but at different volumes in each trial. It was expected that the frogs would go between the speakers in each trial at random, but 17 out of 20 trials had the frog go to the nearest speaker. This proved hypothesis 3 because it showed that female frogs listen for how long sound takes to reach its position. This also showed that tree frogs greater cognitive abilities than previously thought because they used sound