20 (A) Closing the tubes improved the frogs’ ability to hear high frequencies and ultrasounds, while opening them increased sensitivity to low-frequency noises. (B) Further studies of the amphibian’s hearing showed that its eardrums vibrate in response to ultrasonic noises, but only some of the time. (C) By contrast, the frogs have evolved the biological equivalent of earmuffs to block out all sounds of a certain frequency range. (D) In other words, the frogs’ tunable ears are an adaptation to their noisy home environments.