{"id":3249,"date":"2014-10-15T01:02:22","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T06:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3249"},"modified":"2014-10-16T19:51:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T00:51:41","slug":"the-poisonous-singing-frog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/the-poisonous-singing-frog\/","title":{"rendered":"The poisonous singing frog<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3250\" style=\"width: 371px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pngbase641b9584736b70dfe7.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3250\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pngbase641b9584736b70dfe7.png\" alt=\"Poisonous frogs like this Ecuador poison frog (Ameerega bilinguis) are free to evolve louder and more diverse mating calls than non-poisonous species. (Photo credit: Santos et al.)\" width=\"361\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pngbase641b9584736b70dfe7.png 361w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pngbase641b9584736b70dfe7-300x257.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 361px) 100vw, 361px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poisonous frogs like this Ecuador poison frog (Ameerega bilinguis) are free to evolve louder and more diverse mating calls than non-poisonous species. (Photo credit: Santos et al.)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Poisonous and colourful frogs have more diversified mating calls than their non-poisonous counterparts, a new study shows. Researchers explain that when frogs evolve these kind of anti-predator strategies (bright colours and poison), they decrease the risk of being eaten by predators and are rewarded for more showy mating signals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/281\/1796\/20141761.abstract?sid=73244bc6-fb8f-4fe1-9aed-8e03aed75eda\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>October 14,\u00a02014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Juan Santos, University of British Columbia, British Columbia<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poisonous and colourful frogs have more diversified mating calls than their non-poisonous counterparts, a new study shows. Researchers explain that when frogs evolve these kind of anti-predator strategies (bright colours and poison), they decrease the risk of being eaten by predators and are rewarded for more showy mating signals. Original research paper\u00a0published in Proceedings of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3250,"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":[39,170,113,125,917,1290],"class_list":["post-3249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-biodiversity","tag-biology","tag-british-columbia","tag-evolution","tag-reproduction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pngbase641b9584736b70dfe7.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Qp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249","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=3249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3295,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions\/3295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}