Coquí Frogs in Los Angeles County

The Loudest Frogs Around
Introduced coqui frogs are L.A.’s noisiest new neighbors

Recently, biologists and volunteers from NHMLA visited a nursery in Torrance, Calif., positively riddled with coqui frogs. Headed by Herpetology Curator Greg Pauly, the team collected as many coqui frogs as possible over the course of three hours. As a scientist interested in urban nature, Pauly wants to better understand these frogs and how they’re fitting into the ecology of Los Angeles, which is no stranger to introduced species. By collecting frogs, Pauly and his collaborators can learn more about them. What are they eating? How quickly are they reproducing? Are they transporting pathogens like the chytrid fungus that could impact our native frogs?

There are still a lot of questions to answer about these introduced frogs, but the question no one needs to ask is, “Can you hear that?”

[quezbot]

Don't kill them. Take them home. :(

[TitaniumCountess]

Resident of LA County here, and I say to them: Welcome to the neighborhood. That said, I have a rather fond opinion of them as I spent a lot of time in Puerto Rico growing up... I find their song quite pleasant. Certainly better than a cricket or those godawful cicadas the easterners deal with.

[puchocrespo]

Music for my ears! 🇵🇷 I could sleep night with that beautiful sound.

[Tridnt]

people in LA are more afraid of a tree frog than the Drug Cartels.

[orlandosanchez]

I think its crazy how in Puerto Rico we love 'em and go to sleep with their cry

[ElSan]

That sounds is nostalgic to absolutely love it. Reminds me of home

[PRBatman]

Dude, you are wrong; Coquíes help you sleep better. Crickets are chirping all night long too and I don't see people trying to exterminate them. Coquíes help control the insect population too. It is just a matter of getting used to the beauty of this awesome sound of nature.

[pr_trp_gwd]

I moving to LA to make sure that they reproduce.

[josephcruz]

Crazy how LA says it’s a detriment 😂 yet in PR we sleep to the sound of the coqui

[julioalverio]

It is not infestation is the national animal of my island Puerto Rico...
there are beautiful animals and unique in the world if you don't want them send them back

[petec]

LA is not a tropical humid environment. Coquis will not survive outside the confined nurseries anyway.

[YoakYum]

Wish We had them here in my county. I'd much rather listen to frogs, crickets etc. all night than the inconsiderate neighbors fighting, yelling, their damn dogs barking all night long and the feral cats fighting all night. Besides, they make good ' watch-frogs'. If there's someone lurking near they go quiet. Send them here!

[marysacco]

Please transport them to Puerto Rico where they are love and is their land!

[michaelmend]

of course they make noise, dont let us sleep in peace, we here in the united states, we only fall to sleep when we hear gun firing, police sirens, building on fire, fire trucks siren, ambulance sirens, cars blasting loud music, people yelling get the fuck out, welcome to a me rica the uni ted sta tes of, who,

[A-Little-Bit-of-Everything-YT]

"Human health impacts"? Y'all are just a bunch of babies

[Tocairos]

When your server gets raid with people using their mics:

[samucco]

Un regalito de Puerto Rico para el mundo😂❤

[marcoedward]

so you can have an idea its like if bald eagles started showing up in pr and we killed them because they are annoying

[tirethormjolnir]

I saw a frog at the Fort Worth Zoo. I was like check out the Puerto Rican male frog. Then a guy was like how do you know it's a Puerto Rican male frog? I was like because it had the other frogs dik in its mouth.

[DRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY]

i love that sound. grew up falling asleep to it.