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Eli Bieri, PhD Student, Australian Museum; UNSW Sydney

You might think frogs never get enough water. Turns out, they can fare worse in floods than bushfires

Jodi Rowley, CC BY-ND

Frogs need water. Almost all of the world’s 7,900 known frog species breed in fresh water. And when it rains, these amphibians erupt into a chorus of calls – croaks, trills, cheeps and bellows – to attract a mate.

So you would assume a flood represents a windfall for frogs, right? But our new research finds they can have too much of a good thing.

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