Lang Elliott | Dream of the Toad @LangElliott | Uploaded February 2010 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
The Music of Nature proudly presents this video of the American Toad, celebrating the toad's long musical trill, which Henry David Thoreau described as the "Dream of the Toad." Trills may last thirty seconds or more. To make their amazing sound, a male first pumps air into his midsection. Then he closes his nostrils and quickly inflates his large vocal sac by contracting his midsection. The trill is produced as powerful muscles in the midsection force air across vocal cords in the throat.
© 2010 Lang Elliott
The Music of Nature
musicofnature.org
The Music of Nature proudly presents this video of the American Toad, celebrating the toad's long musical trill, which Henry David Thoreau described as the "Dream of the Toad." Trills may last thirty seconds or more. To make their amazing sound, a male first pumps air into his midsection. Then he closes his nostrils and quickly inflates his large vocal sac by contracting his midsection. The trill is produced as powerful muscles in the midsection force air across vocal cords in the throat.
© 2010 Lang Elliott
The Music of Nature
musicofnature.org
