Atlas Obscura turned to a University of Cincinnati doctoral student to explain why many frogs glow in the dark under certain light.
Amartya Tashi Mitra is studying the development of vision in UC Professor Elke Buschbeck's lab. Mitra said the evidence suggests biofluorescence is one way frogs communicate in a world in which they are most active at night.
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