Screaming tadpoles!
Debs on Apr 20th 2010
There's a surprising, if not a little disquieting, amphibian news story floating around the Internet this week following a report in the journal Acta Zoologica - scientists have discovered a species of frog whose tadpoles let out a metallic sounding "scream" if they are under distress.
The screaming tadpoles are those of the horned frog Ceratophrys ornata which is found in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. Scientist Dr Guillermo Natale of the National University of La Plata in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and his colleagues made the discovery when they were studying the mating calls of adult frogs.
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