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This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
In the frog world, romance is often accompanied by a song. "It's the norm. The vast majority of frogs have males calling to attract females."
Sandra Goutte is an evolutionary biologist and herpetologist at the University of Campinas, in Brazil. And she studies frogs called 'pumpkin toadlets' from the cloud forests of coastal Brazil. "They're extremely cool, they're teeny tiny." They're neon orange, and they wave their arms around when they feel threatened, "by either predator or herpetologist."
And, true to frog form, "they make this slow call that sounds like a cricket, like "che che."
But here's the weird part: it appears the pumpkin toadlets are not able to hear the sounds they make. Goutte and her colleagues playing recordings of the calls to the frogs to look for reactions. The researchers also traced electrical impulses from the frogs' ears to their brains, and even dissected the frog inner ear.
And it turns out, the frogs just don't have the equipment to hear their own voices. The study is in the journal Scientific Reports.

"Why would they call if they cannot hear their own calls, right?" Goutte does have a few theories. Perhaps, she says, the bulging throat movement associated with calling is a sexual signal, with the sound an inadvertent accompaniment—perhaps the frogs lost the ability to hear the calls at some point in their evolutionary history, when the displays did the job well enough on their own. After all, they're a highly visual species—out during the day, brightly colored, do the hand-waving thing.
Pumpkin toadlets are the only species unable to hear themselves. At least, as far as we know. "The thing is, it was really hard to convince even some of the co-authors to do the experiments, because they were like, 'Why would you test their hearing? If they're calling, they hear, they must hear, right?' So I think it's also the way we're doing science—we're not actually testing these obvious things. So maybe there are more examples out there but we don't know any yet." One can only hope that future research proposals will get a fair hearing.
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短头蟾是唯一不能听到自己声音的物种cEzq7Bo^Tud%。至少就我们已知的情况来看，短头蟾是唯一的物种-~Cf@D1~N,6*^w。“问题是，说服一些合著者进行实验非常难，因为他们会说，‘为什么你要测试它们的听力？如果它们发出叫声，它们会听到，它们一定会听到，对吧？'因此，我认为这也是我们现在研究科学的方式——我们不去测试那些显而易见的事物9ksb1QWbMtoQ。也许那些事物中存在更多例证，可是我们目前还不知道Bj[W6x&*LPY-s,qyL]N。”我们只能希望未来的研究计划能得到公平的对待bye#NzZq#3h6@^NHKQy。
谢谢大家收听科学美国人——60秒科学@0YHeXxxE*-%JhbE&NyW。我是克里斯托弗·因塔利亚塔(PiSmfx]q*%&)xIo##。

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1. turn out 原来是；结果发现；
例句：Cosgrave's forecast turned out to be quite wrong.
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2. after all 毕竟；终究；
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