“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
They say you have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find the prince, but some female frogs are opting out. This post from thetinderblog explains how female frogs have found a way to exert control over ...
(a) Escape probability of female common frogs during avoidance behavior as a function of female body size (SVL), or (b) the female-to-male SVL ratio. Dots represent individual females and their ...
Early in development, many animals pick a team — male or female — based on their genetics, and, with time, acquire the characteristics to match. New research from the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL ...