Do Frogs Enjoy Smooth Jazz? (Experiment)

[Music] [Music] [Music] they're always hopping in my garden that a lifetime and I wish they just hung out for me to kiss kissing toads again I can't wait to kiss my slimy friends they just want to search all night for seven bugs and I can't help but kiss some toads again kissing toads again they're in fibbys nature always makes me happy [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] using torch again I can't wait are you going I don't know if you could tell but I love frogs and toads they've got everything all the other lovable creatures luck the slimy skin the big eyes the long tongue the hoppy legs and the little babies that pop out of their skin it's beautiful and Australia used to be filled with them everywhere you looked there was a frog my childhood was one big frog buffet but sadly things have kind had changed and frogs are no longer having a great time over one-third of Australia's frog species are now considered threatened and three have already become extinct for example corroboree frogs these stupid-looking things used to be so common that fishermen would use them as bait on their fishing line but now they're only 50 left in the wild and the poor fishermen have had to resort to other endangered animals for bait like pandas or pangolins but it's not the fisherman's fault they're just doing what their Fisher mum and Fisher dad taught them to do and besides there's much more devastating factors like us cutting down and putting poo in their swamps the introduction of super predators like cats and the French and now most devastatingly this little fungi known as BD or bat Roach yttrium dendro batter dose for short which despite being a fungi isn't very fun now this guy is responsible for ninety extinctions and the decline of 900 species of frog around the world it's also been dubbed by scientists as the deadliest plague known to mankind beating BP oil refinery by a whopping 56 extinctions Wow now all these factors combined make it very hard for frogs to survive especially for these big fat green boys you know I remember being a wee lad and the amount of joy I felt when I found one of them on the front window of my house but I haven't seen one now for at least 20 years and I haven't really experienced happiness since and I'm definitely not the only miserable adult that's noticed the absence of frog os-- many Sydneysiders have also been very vocal about the decline in green frogs so much so that it even made the front page Australian news and has got an everyone scratching their heads wondering why this green frog genocide is happening but it also made me suspect that these people only care because the frogs are green you know if it were the brown frogs they were disappearing maybe Karen over here wouldn't care so much about it and would actually think it's a good thing as she says they're always loitering around the neighborhood and making loud noises in their cars now I'm not a scientist and I'm not qualified to say this in any way but maybe their decline could legitimately be linked to their skin color I mean a similar animal colored decline happened during the Industrial Revolution where the Industrial Revolution began and all the trees were cut down and air was filled with smoke a bunch of animals died out but an interesting happened with the peppered moth not only did people discover it made a great spice but its species seemed to change color as the environment became dirtier and dirtier the white peppered variants of the moth died out and the darker pepper variants were able to survive in the dark smog field landscape and is now the most common form of pepper found in kitchens today and as we cut down more and more bush and create increasingly larger and grayer urban areas I'm wondering if this big fat green boy that used to thrive camouflaging on bright green leaves is now unable to survive in our bland urban environment like look at it on that wall how can you not want to eat that also well I've noticed the decline of green tree frogs I've also noticed an increase in other species of frog Oaks the Parian tree frog and stripe marsh frog and these are two darker species that seem quite happy in urban landscapes now don't get me wrong I do really like these frogs but they're already experts at multiplying by themselves and don't need the help of a Love Guru unlike this fat guy now usually when you want to help up frogs you get lame advice like make a pond plant some plants do the thing but I am so sick of listening to Kosta from gardening Australia now I've listened to him for six years on growing advice and I still can't produce a beard so why would I trust him on how to root so instead I'll be following the tried and tested mating methods of underaged parents using music and substances and I recently saw this article which talked about the effectiveness of using speakers to lower fish towards new reefs by making lively fish noises and this makes so much sense to me like if you are out in the city and you're feeling hungry and you're walking past some restaurants do you go to the empty quiet one or do you go to the one that has paper cutouts of people and a speaker playing dining noises the choice is obvious so I'm going to do exactly this I also found this article that claims that sharks enjoy jazz and I thought if sharks enjoy jazz and they don't even have legs imagine how much of these hoppy boys would enjoy it so I'll test the music as well now clearly if I want to use speakers to attract frogs to my yard they need to exist in the area in the first place I can't just play the mating call of the Amazonian milk frog and hope it shows up trust me and I've tried so I've got this app called frog ID now this is a great app and I don't usually promote stuff but if you live in Australia you're love frogs and you're also sick of tinder then this is the app for you using this app I was able to find out what kind and where all the single frogs in my area were and I'm not going to show you exactly well here because a lot of you are creeps and you'll find out my location but the most abundant are Perry and tree frogs striped marsh frogs toad 'lets dwarf green tree frogs and surprisingly some green tree frogs which I haven't seen but still around so my plan is to start with the most common frogs and see if I can attract them before working my way up and attempting to attract the rarer ones and then I'll move on to some smooth jazz and this is gonna be one of my most complicated builds I need to get this speaker and put it in this container here and it was pretty hard at first but I got the hang of it now when I'm doing this I don't plan to tell my family or neighbors because it's extremely important that they don't know it's a man-made noise that they are hearing you know when you're lying in bed and you hear a frog croaking all night in the rain it's relaxing and it helps you fall asleep but if you actually knew that that croaking noise was created by an insane man sitting outside your window scraping some pans together you would probably go out and hit him in the face and then call the police this is gonna remain a secret until they watch this video and then find out and word of warning to you Thomas don't forget who came out on top during the lawn mower argument and I have no idea if this is gonna work I'm gonna start by playing this recorded frog call from the Frog ID app and just hope it wasn't a recording of some super sleazy frog who's saying now maybe you can come in and join me on my comfy bed I have some red wine maybe we can have some CRS and then I just scare away all the frogs in my area I also need to get the repetition and volume right in order to properly trick the frogs first up I'm gonna attempt to attract the Parian tree frog whose call sounds are the worldly you imagine walking around at night and hearing this noise and not knowing what it was all the kids are got scared while watching this don't worry that was not the real predator he was locked up a couple of months ago now I know that the Perry entry frogs like to hide out in the birds-of-paradise right here so I've set up the camera and speaker in this bin facing the trees and I'm gonna leave it playing all night and hopefully we can record some frogs okay I let it play all night and when I came out to check in the morning there were two psychos having a domestic in my yard boy after I broke them up I could not see any frogs hiding in the bin so let's go check the game cam all right it looks like the only thing I've managed to attract is this predator and that makes sense they must have heard the Frog call and thought a free meal and I can't imagine how terrifying it would be being a small animal in my yard with Lions roaming it all night the last thing you'd want to do is start loudly screaming out your location and how horny you are which is probably why they usually call out from inside the hollows of plants okay I'm gonna move on and try a track the eastern froglet which I've seen in my yard before but only once or twice and awhile ago now and my plan this time is to do it on a rainy night which means hopefully there'll be more frogs moving about and the cats won't be I've also decided to put the speaker at the bottom of this container which should catch the ground-dwelling frog and also prevent cats from reaching in alright that is the perfect volume to annoy my neighbors so I'm gonna check back in the morning and in the morning it's full of frogs which is great if I lived in Perry I would be a rich man and I don't think this is an accident that they fell into this container like if there's just one frog it might be but three come on it's like that famous George Bush saying fool me once shame shame on shame on you for me for me the full up full of can't get fooled again and after checking the game cam the frogs don't seem to have triggered it as they're probably too small or sneaky which is a shame as I really wanted to watch their froggy brains make the decision to jump in but the test has been successful which is great news then you can have a threesome alright deal so I'm gonna try again attracting the Perry entry frog as I think I might have better luck in this spot I repeated the process for a couple of days with nothing until finally I attracted this beautiful big boy oh he's so big oh stop biting me this guy's biting me and my other side oh you are beautiful and again it's hard to tell whether the Frog was attracted to the container because of the speaker or because of the various bugs that had fallen into the container and this might actually explain why he stayed in there considering he is very very good at parkour you are a ninja guy but because this is my video I'm gonna say it was a great success you're gonna jump onto the land zone here you're gonna do it and the Frog deserves to be treated like a star I just put you on here for a thumbnail quickly [Music] [Applause] okay let's go take you oh oh so I think after that success I'm going to attempt to attract a green tree frog and to increase my chances I've purchased this little model frog which um which came with with lipstick already on it and this should help lure them in then I let that run for a couple of days annoying my neighbors and family but I didn't have any results and I don't know if it's because I'm playing the mating call wrong words because the hordes of cats in my yard oh it's just because the species of frog does not actually exist in my area anymore but let's move on and it's party time so first we're gonna get the frogs warmed up with some smooth jazz and hope they get to know each other all right thanks boys just stay there for three days all right so I let that play for a couple of nights and nothing and that answers the age-old question on whether frogs like jazz no now even though this experiment didn't work to attract the now disappearing green frogs I still think it has potential and demonstrates the effectiveness of speakers although obviously it can't undo the severe ecological damage we have done to Australia's environment and amphibian population but it could be very useful for that one person that watches this video first and thinks you know what I do want to steal and hoard all my neighbor's frogs so there you go people go start hoarding and kissing actually before you go start smooching if you liked this video go check out some of my other animal videos like this one where I stuff lizards in my house or this one where I train some Magpies and then maybe consider subscribing thank you so much for watching kissing toads again I can't wait to kiss my slimy friends they just want to search all night for some bugs and I can't help but kiss

Channel: I did a thing

Views: 2,228,618

Keywords: animals, i did a thing, frogs, william osman, science, nature, michael reeves

Id: PKSSIhlFA5Q

Length: 15min 2sec (902 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 15 2020