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Play Dead or Drown: How Female Frogs Outsmart Deadly Mating Balls

Playing dead isn't the ultimate ghosting technique. Frogs use "tonic immobility" as a strategy to stay alive during mating ...
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 ...
Live Science

'It's risky for male frogs out there': Female frog drags and attempts to eat screaming male

Female green and golden bell frogs in Australia will eat their male counterparts when the males' mating call displeases them. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
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The Fascinating Reason Female Frogs Fake Death

Some frog and toad species are explosive breeders. This means they have short reproductive periods, requiring them to gather in large numbers to mate. Hundreds, possibly even thousands, of animals ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

Outside/Inbox: Why do frogs sing together around the same tiny pond?

Every other Friday, the Outside/In team here at NHPR answers listener questions about the natural world. Today's question comes from Andy, calling from Dover, New Hampshire. Alejandro Vélez: That is a ...
New Atlas

Males to blame: We only know how 1.4% of female frogs sound

Drawing parallels with other species, not naming names, the voices of female frogs are being drowned out by their much louder male counterparts – so much so we only know how 1.4% of the ladies ...