Female frogs are faking their deaths to escape unwanted attention from male frogs, a study published in Royal Society Open Science found.
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.
European common frog / brown frog male and female in amplexus floating among frogspawn in pond during the breeding season in spring.Amid the chaos, female frogs are at risk of getting trapped in "mating balls," in which several males cling to them to vie for their attention, which could lead to their death, Dittrich said.
Among the avoidance behaviors the females exhibited included a turning motion, in which they turn and twist their bodies to get out of the grip of the males -- a technique used more successfully by smaller females -- as well as engaging in a call that is similar in the frequency and structure to the calls males make.
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