This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. These frogs put the “group” in “group sex”—and that helps them thrive. Of all vertebrates, gray foam-nest tree ...

They’ll be back out the next day and the night after, but in a different area of Haiku as they work to stop the spread of the coqui frog. But while the ear-splitting call of this tiny tree frog ...

Instead, the hollow interior fills with water and provides a home for new life to begin — via frog eggs. A new species of tree frog was discovered laying its eggs in the tiny bamboo shaft ...

Even though they have good reason to be happy and content, the frogs decide that they need a king. They ask Jupiter, the King of all the Gods, for a king, and to keep them quiet he sends down a log.