Bad Bunny’s latest album amplifies the voices of Puerto Rico’s coquí and endangered crested toad, highlighting the urgent need to protect the island’s fragile ecosystems and cultural heritage.
The male’s mating call, a two-note, high-pitched “co-qui,” gives the coqui frog its name. With no predators, the frogs from Puerto Rico can proliferate and eat large quantities of native ...
The silence is a stark contrast to the noise of the gasoline motor and, before that, the piercing calls of the coqui frogs that met Aquino and his crew from the Maui Invasive Species Committee ...
Coquí frogs are cultural symbols in Puerto Rico, well known for the “ko-kee” call made by the common coquí, Eleutherodactylus coqui. In fact, 16 distinct species can be found on the island — and ...
When the Coqui tree frog was first found in Hawai’i eight years ago, it was viewed as a cute oddity. The amphibian, introduced from Puerto Rico, grows to two inches long, has big eyes and small ...