Dating can consist of great communication, spotty here-and-there texts or even "ghosting" — in which people ignore each other to end a relationship. Now comes a study about female frogs — and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
An ecologist filmed a green and golden bell frog attempting to eat her male suitor while visiting Australia's Kooragang Island Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...
Humans aren’t the only beings that “ghost” in relationships. When invertebrates and vertebrates fake their own deaths, it's usually been observed as a tactic to avoid predators. Female frogs, however, ...
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 ...
Drawing parallels with other species, not naming names, the voices of female frogs are being drowned out by their much louder male counterparts – so much so we only know how 1.4% of the ladies ...
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