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Female frogs fake their own death to avoid unwanted attention from males: Study

Female frogs aren't hopping to mate with every interested male frog, scientists have found. Instead, they are faking their deaths to escape unwanted attention. Female European common frogs were ...
New York Post

Female frogs may eat male suitors after mating call in act of ‘sexual cannibalism,’ new theory suggests

It’s frog-eat-frog in the amphibian dating game. An ecologist has captured the moment a female green and golden bell frog attempted to eat a male suitor. Dr. John Gould, from the University of ...
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Understudied and unheard: Female frogs receive little research attention for their calls

A trio of biologists from Universidade de São Paulo, Red Ecoacústica Colombia and the University of Missouri System has found that researchers conduct only a fraction of studies of female frog calls ...
WMUR

Female frogs fake their own death to avoid male mating advances, study says

While "ghosting" is a popular method of ending a relationship with a potential suitor for humans, female frogs take that concept to the next level.In a phenomenon dubbed "tonic immobility," a recent ...
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Female frogs play dead to avoid mating? Some do, study found

The Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana) is well known for its ability to play dead when under threat from a predator. It's such an iconic scene that anyone or anything feigning death can be said ...