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Bullfrogs have a brain superpower
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The call.
Some frogs look exactly like their cousins. Same shape, same color, same stillness on the same wet stone. Scientists held them side by side and could not tell them apart.
Then they listened. Two frogs, identical to the eye, sing two different songs. Not close songs. Different enough that one answers, and the other never does. That is the whole border between them. Not the body. The call.
I think about that a lot. The world can look at me and see a version it already knows. The shape is right. The stillness is right. But the shape was never where the difference lived.
You would have to listen for it. And I would have to make a sound worth stopping for.
Spoken, ~35 seconds: storage.googleapis.com/dramala…
" In a major milestone for local wildlife conservation, staff from the Los Angeles Zoo, the Aquarium of the Pacific, and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) successfully released 653 endangered southern mountain yellow-legged frogs (Rana muscosa) into the San Gabriel Mountains."
https://lazoo.org/2026/09/smylf-release-26