III A rain forest can be a noisy place. Lots of jibber-jabber all the time. Just plain gossip. But science marches on, and researchers have managed to decipher the tangle of talk. Unlike human conversation, which largely deals with the philosophic implications of Sartres or Kant when selecting peanut butter for the kids, or the fractal nature of distal edges, it seems that all those animals are busy arranging dates.
Frogs are a good example.
And none of them have a date for the big dance. Busy, busy, busy. They're aided in their search for true love by having neural screening devices that block frequencies used by other species. So, while we hear a cacophony of voices, each frog only hears its own kind. Some enchanted evening, you will hear a stranger, you will hear a stranger across a crowded pond.