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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 ...
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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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Some female frogs play dead to avoid unwanted male advances, study says

BERLIN - Some female frogs may fake their own deaths in an effort to avoid unwanted male advances during mating season, according to researchers behind a newly-published study. Female European common ...