Female frogs play dead to avoid unwanted attention, study shows #Shorts
October 20, 2023
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as posted by the channelFemale frogs will fake their deaths to escape aggressive male frogs, a recent study published in Royal Society Open Science found.
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When invertebrates and vertebrates fake their own deaths, it's usually been observed as a tactic to avoid predators. Female frogs, however, are using the behavior to avoid a different kind of predator: aggressively clingy males looking to mate.
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