To avoid being crowded to death by males wanting to mate during the breeding season, female frogs have evolved ways to get the males to leave them alone.
Female frogs have developed several ingenious and sneaky tactics to get away from unwanted males attempting to mate with them, one of which includes faking their own deaths.These European common frogs can often be harmed or even killed by males attempting to mate with them during the breeding season, leading them to evolve defensive mechanisms against the advances of the hordes of horny males, according to a new study in the journal Royal Society Open Science.
In other species, sexual conflict can arise as a result of females wanting to choose the best quality male to father her children.'Female animals benefit from having their eggs fertilized by high-quality males ,' David Hone, a senior lecturer in zoology at Queen Mary University of London, told Newsweek. 'Not all males are equal, some will be big and healthy, some far less so.
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