Frogs Play Tree: Male tunes his call to specific tree hole

Borneo’s tree-hole frog may come as close to playing a musical instrument as any wild animal does, according to new tests.

DEEP VOICE. A male tree-hole frog in Borneo advertises for a companion. Lardner

Plenty of animals make structured sounds, but this inch-long rain forest frog adjusts its vocal performance to create a specific quality–resonance–from an object in its environment, says Björn Lardner of the University of Lund in Sweden.