Do frogs get all high-voiced when they breathe in some helium, the way people do? A research study explores that very question, and we explore that study, in this week’s Improbable Research podcast.
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This week, Marc Abrahams discusses a published helium-filled study, with dramatic readings from Dany Adams, a biology professor at Tufts University who uses electricity to make animals grow new limbs, and uses light to make cancer retreat in some animals.
For more info about what we discuss this week, go explore:
- “Frogs in helium: the anuran vocal sac is not a cavity resonator,” A.S. Rand and R. Dudley, Physiological Zoology, vol. 66, 1993, pp. 793-806.
- Cavity resonator.
The mysterious John Schedler or the shadowy Bruce Petschek perhaps did the sound engineering this week.
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