Pacific Tree Frog - Homing

Homing

Research was done on the Pacific Tree Frog to discover if they have homing instincts and what was their main source knowing where their home was. In order to find the answer, these frogs were marked and moved 300 yards away from their pond. Several days later, the researchers did a recapture on the original pond in which 66.3% of the frogs were recaptured indicating that there was some source of homing instinct. This was made apparent again when 24 frogs were placed into a larger pond and 20 of those frogs were returned at their original pond. The frogs' movement patterns, olfactory, auditory, and kinesthetic senses could be explanations for the homing, but not a single factor was able to explain the results indicating that these frogs might be using all or a combination of these factors for homing.