Frog mating can be a competitive and sometimes deadly affair as many males compete for females – but females have some tricks to avoid unwanted attention
Male frogs commonly coerce female frogs into mating, but some females have come up with ways to avoid harassment – including playing dead.), only have a short window of a few weeks each year to mate. This means that lots of males simultaneously compete for the attention of females, sometimes leading to deadly clashes as individuals are submerged under a competing group of males.
Now, Dittrich and her colleagues have found that female common frogs employ a few different tactics to evade males. “Males typically use release calls to signal other males that they are a male, so to let them go,” says Dittrich, and the females seem to mimic this call to convince males to let free them too.Carolin Dittrich
In 46 per cent of the cases, the females evaded the male’s attention, with higher rates of success for smaller females, which are more easily able to escape from a male’s grip.
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