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The passage suggests that adult tailed frogs are non-vocal and lack ear membranes because:


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Okay Aspiring reader people Here we go four of ten

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The passage suggests that adult tailed frogs are non vocal

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and lack ear membranes because why So let's think about

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this one here since nearby rapids and waterfalls create noise

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that drowns out sound while the adult tailed frog doesn't

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need the ability to call and hear it wouldn't serve

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any purpose anyway or helped them in mating You know

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giggity so they simply don't have the traits anymore Sounds

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efficient about that appendix Well in terms of being beneficial

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for mating and not being able to here or call

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out does make a difference Get b instead it's the

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extension of the male frogs inside out reproductive opening that

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helps with baby making Also the pastors doesn't say anything

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about any other species in the park having the same

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adaptations so get her to see you As far as

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we know this is exclusively a tailed frog thing Lastly

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the text does not say whether tadpoles have the ability

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to call and hear our visibility disappears as they mature

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into adults So get rid of a The passage states

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that the adults don't have the ability while tadpoles have

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their own traits You know like sucker mounds and strong

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tales That's it It's devi ability called here right Well

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no longer matter It's sort of like after you've been 00:01:19.317 --> [endTime] married thirty years

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