Zoologist Brian Zarate first heard the creature’s unfamiliar calls in 2003 while he and other researchers were working in the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in Morris County. The strange series of "chucks and occasional groans" emanated from a small frog no bigger than the length of a thumb…Zarate videotaped the spotted creature and posted it on YouTube, where it was seen by Jeremy Feinberg, a doctoral student at the Rutgers University School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. Feinberg had been tracking down other reports of an unfamiliar frog call on Staten Island, N.Y. "Our role in the early stages was to help Feinberg’s group and explore what was going on in New Jersey," Zarate said.
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