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Amphibians like frogs and toads can vocalise using vibrating tissues in airflow. For example, frogs use vocal sacs and an air-recycling system to make sound, while pipid frogs use laryngeal muscles to produce an implosion of air and create clicking noise. [7] Aquatic mammals such as seals and otters can produce sound using the larynx.
Frogs and toads produce a rich variety of sounds, calls, and songs during their courtship and mating rituals. The callers, usually males, make stereotyped sounds in order to advertise their location, their mating readiness and their willingness to defend their territory; listeners respond to the calls by return calling, by approach, and by going silent.
Certain words in the English language represent animal sounds: the noises and vocalizations of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for communication. The words can be used as verbs or interjections in addition to nouns , and many of them are also specifically onomatopoeic .
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The barking tree frog is known for its loud, strident, barking call. It may also utter a repetitive single-syllable mating call. The calls of the barking tree frog sound like a church bell and have been described as "tonk" and "doonk". [6] It has been known to chorus with other frogs of the same and similar species.
Australian Frog Calls (also referred to as Songs of Disappearance: Australian Frog Calls) is an album of Australian frog calls, released on 2 December 2022 by the Bowerbird Collective and Australian Museum. It The album debuted at number 3 on the ARIA Charts.
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