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Why do these female frogs play dead?

She’s just not that into you” isn’t a sentiment that male European common frogs seem to understand—at least not during ...
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Female frogs fake their own death to avoid unwanted attention from males: Study

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. Female European common frogs were ...
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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 ...
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Female Frogs Have an Effective Strategy for Dealing With Annoying Males: Pretend to Be Dead

Some female frogs in Europe are taking ghosting to a whole new level. A new study conducted by researchers at Berlin’s Natural History Museum has found that female European common frogs often engage ...

Three frogs to be reintroduced to West Acre pingos

Celtic Rewilding wants to bring back the agile frog (Rana dalmatina), the moor frog (R. arvalis), and the European tree frog ...