When Frogs Sing Their Evening Song, Listen for Nature’s Greatest Lesson
Spring Peepers Hijack My Brain With an Arrhythmic Chorus About Chance and Survival
For some people, spring begins with the sound of birds. For me, it’s frogs.
All winter, frogs crouch hidden in the leaves, their outsides frozen so hard they’d make a “clink” if you dropped them. They survive because the interior of their cells are propped up by a sugary antifreeze peculiar to frogs. As the weather warms up, they unfreeze and reanimate, like something from a fairy tale. And then they find themselves a nice muddy spot and begin singing.
Frog songs are meepy and beepy, some clattery, others deep. …
