One inch long, they live up to the name with high-pitched peeping. All these frogs need vernal ponds to breed. Since their water home is temporary, they are devoid of fish, and the frogs are ...

Dusky gopher frogs spend most of their lives underground, in burrows created by gopher tortoises — hence their name — and other animals. In the winter they migrate to temporary ponds to breed, and ...

Just call, make sounds, try to attract females. Marina Henke: Simply put, frogs croak around tiny ponds because they want to reproduce. They flock to water since that’s where the females need to ...