Saturday, November 15, 2003

Frogs have accents


Posted by MacDood
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A researcher has recorded frog-calls and discovered regional accents among them.




Bernie Simmons, a spokesman for SPSS, said it was thought the frogs migrated to the warmer climate of southern Europe during the last ice age where they separated into distinct colonies that slowly started to diverge.


Part of that diversity has emerged as regional accents.


The accents are different depending on whether pool frogs belong to the ancient Iberian, Italian or Balkan populations.



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(Thanks, Rod) [Boing Boing]

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