The male’s mating call, a two-note, high-pitched “co-qui,” gives the coqui frog its name. With no predators, the frogs from Puerto Rico can proliferate and eat large quantities of native ...
They’ll be back out the next day and the night after, but in a different area of Haiku as they work to stop the spread of the coqui frog. But while the ear-splitting call of this tiny tree frog ...
When the Coqui tree frog was first found in Hawai’i eight years ago, it was viewed as a cute oddity. The amphibian, introduced from Puerto Rico, grows to two inches long, has big eyes and small ...
Eleutherodactylus coqui. In fact, 16 distinct species can be found on the island — and nowhere else — and each of them has a unique type of call somewhat different from the others'. Of these frogs, ...