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 ...
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 ...
Female green and golden bell frogs in Australia will eat their male counterparts when the males' mating call displeases them. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
Every other Friday, the Outside/In team here at NHPR answers listener questions about the natural world. Today's question comes from Andy, calling from Dover, New Hampshire. Alejandro Vélez: That is a ...
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 ...
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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 breeding season. This means their female counterparts have to take more dramatic ...
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