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With the objective of knowing some characteristics of the vocal activity and of determining the anurans of the "Municipality" of Ibagué by means of acoustic parameters, we carried out the present work in 11 different places inside the municipality, in a range altitudinal from 780 m. until 4,300 m. Of the 35 species of frogs and toads found, it was possible to study only 13 of them. In this work, it was found that each one of the 13 species presents a vocalization that is characteristic and that allows their taxonomic identification. Also, it was observed that among the species, there is a great interspecific and intraspecific variation in the rate of calls, a smaller variation in the duration of a call, notes per call, pulses per note, and that the dominant frequency is the variable with the smallest intraspecific variation but with great interspecific variation.
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