{"id":1859,"date":"2014-06-04T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2014-06-05T14:59:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T19:59:40","slug":"singing-in-the-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/singing-in-the-drain\/","title":{"rendered":"Singing in the drain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1832\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Mien-Tien-Tree-frog-calling-in-the-drain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1832\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1832\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Mien-Tien-Tree-frog-calling-in-the-drain.jpg\" alt=\"Mientien tree frogs are native to Taiwan. A new study shows that the tiny animals are using man-made concrete drains to amplify their mating calls. (Photo credit: Wen-Hao Bob Tan)\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Mien-Tien-Tree-frog-calling-in-the-drain.jpg 400w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Mien-Tien-Tree-frog-calling-in-the-drain-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1832\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mientien tree frogs are native to Taiwan. A new study shows that the tiny animals are using man-made concrete drains to amplify their mating calls. (Photo credit: Wen-Hao Bob Tan)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researcher from Taiwan have shown that the mientien tree frog uses concrete drains to amplify its mating calls. They used field studies to show that far more males call from inside the drains than outside them, and acoustic analysis to show that the structures do indeed increase call volume and duration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/jzo.12154\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the the journal<em>\u00a0Journal of Zoology\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>June 4, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Y. Kirk Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researcher from Taiwan have shown that the mientien tree frog uses concrete drains to amplify its mating calls. They used field studies to show that far more males call from inside the drains than outside them, and acoustic analysis to show that the structures do indeed increase call volume and duration. Original research paper\u00a0published in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[39,174,215,917,1290,1717],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-animals","tag-environment","tag-evolution","tag-reproduction","tag-urban-development"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Mien-Tien-Tree-frog-calling-in-the-drain.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-tZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1868,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions\/1868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}