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What kind of frog says ribbit?

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In the early movie days, when Hollywood needed sounds for a night scene, they took their microphones outside the studio. That's how the world was introduced to that famous RIBBIT frog sound. It's the Pacific treefrog (Hyla regilla). It is a familiar frog sound in the Pacific coast states, wherever there are grasses and low plants near freshwater. read more

The extremely well known "ribbit" frog call is actually specific to only a small handful of frog species from the North American Pacific Coastal regions. This is because the call of the Baja California Treefrog was used as the background sound effect for countless old movies, regardless of where the movie was set. read more

Here is the frog that goes "ribbit": A Pacific Chorus Frog (Hyla pseudacris or Pseudacris regilla) calls from the edge of a stream on Carmel Valley Road, east of Carmel, California, 3/25/99. read more

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