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Do Some Female Frogs Play Dead To Avoid Mating?

When you think of an animal playing dead, especially in North America, you probably picture the Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana), commonly known in the region simply as a possum. It’s such an ...
Newsweek

Female Frogs Fake Death to Escape Unwanted Male Attention

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 ...
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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 ...
Science News

Faking death lets some female frogs slip the mating grip of a male

Grab fast and hang on for hours. A fierce grip is all the courtship finesse a male frog needs in species that reproduce in frenzied mobs. Female European common frogs, however, have at least three ...
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Female Frogs Play Dead to Dodge Unwanted Male Attention, Study Finds

New findings suggest that female European common frogs "may not be as passive and helpless as previously thought" Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...