Female frogs fake their own death to avoid unwanted attention from males: Study

dphile@lemm.ee to Not The Onion@lemmy.world – 207 points –
Female frogs fake their own death to avoid unwanted attention from males: Study
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Please don't jump to conclusions yet. This has been observed in European common frogs so if your advances towards, say, Tasmanian toad, have been refused and the toad appears to be dead, it might be, in fact, dead.

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I'll fuck it anyway, just in case...

No, wait, I mean ...

Really as a scientist you can be smart enough to discover such a thing, but apparently that's no guarantee you're also smart enough to keep it to yourself