Tag: mating
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 moves that give them a chance of escaping overbearing male grasps, say evolutionary behavioral ecologist Carolin Dittrich and curator of herpetology Mark-Oliver Rödel of the Berlin Natural History Museum. The pair describe those tactics October 11 in Royal Society Open Science.