vocal sac in a sentence
Examples
- Typically, males are smaller than females, and can be told apart from the females by their yellow vocal sacs when calling.
- Due to the males lack of vocal sacs, they have soft mating calls that can only be heard from short distances.
- The vocal sac is open to the mouth cavity of the frog, with two slits on either side of the tongue.
- Like the stoney creek frog ( " Litoria wilcoxi " ), and many other stream-dwelling frogs, waterfall frogs lack vocal sacs.
- When the tadpoles are about to hatch, they are engulfed by the male, which carries them around inside his much-enlarged vocal sac.
- Searching in the foliage, he whispers " Right here ! " and illuminates a frog as its vocal sac expands and constricts.
- The species exhibits sexual dimorphism with males having single sub-gular vocal sac and a tubercle on the humerus while females lack them.
- Although lacking a vocal sac, the males make a mating call of alternating long and short trills, by contracting the intrinsic laryngeal muscles.
- A male can be distinguished from a female during breeding season due to the visibility of a dark-pigmented vocal sac on his throat.
- Its head was more similar to a howler monkey's, which has a lower jaw that juts forward to accommodate an apple-size vocal sac.