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Why do these female frogs play dead?

She’s just not that into you” isn’t a sentiment that male European common frogs seem to understand—at least not during ...
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Female frogs fake their own death to avoid unwanted attention from males: Study

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 ...
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Some female frogs play dead to avoid unwanted male advances, study says

BERLIN - Some female frogs may fake their own deaths in an effort to avoid unwanted male advances during mating season, according to researchers behind a newly-published study. Female European common ...
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Female Frogs Play Dead to Dodge Unwanted Male Attention, Study Finds

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 ...