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Tracy Barbaro selected "Description" to show in Overview on "Pseudacris crucifer (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)".
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Leo Shapiro selected "Spring Peeper" to show in Overview on "Pseudacris crucifer (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)".
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Cyndy Parr commented on an older version of Description:
@Kyle Wilhite: Kyle, if you submit a better description then you can rate it higher and use metric -- just use "Add an article" while on the Detail tab. By the way, I saw that you added a common name "grenouille" -- that's fine if someone does use that name somewhere, but I changed the preferred name to "Northern spring peeper" because I believe that is the more typically used common name.
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Nathan Wilson commented on "Pseudacris crucifer: Spring Peeper":
The one from CalPhotos has better meta-data.
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Nathan Wilson marked "Pseudacris crucifer: Spring Peeper" as hidden on the "Pseudacris crucifer" page.
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Kyle Wilhite added the English common name "Grenouille " to "Pseudacris crucifer (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)".
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Kyle Wilhite commented on an older version of Life History, Abundance, Activity, and Special Behaviors:
Peepers do exhibit this upward "slur" but I'd call it a positive or increasing frequency sweep.
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Kyle Wilhite commented on an older version of Communication and Perception:
I have recorded peepers at 10C with no problem and average calls lean more toward 60 calls per minute. the call rate is heavily dependent on the ambient temperature and will fluctuate accordingly. Warmer nights bring increased calls per minute where colder nights you see a drop in their call rate. This information is based off of MD data collected.
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Kyle Wilhite commented on an older version of Description:
You probably should convert your units to metric. The research I have done on peepers suggests that their average male SVL (snout-vent length) for a population in MD is 27.3 mm. We can expect females to be larger than this due to reproductive differences in gamete production. When describing the species, it seems a little unorthodox to desribe what it isn't (ie. lack of stripes, spotting, etc..). When we come across frogs in the field we go by what characteristics they have, and with regards to the peeper, it's the trademark "X" on their back, as mentioned. The X is what gave the spring peeper it's specific epithet (crucifer).
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