They found that female frogs will often resort to extraordinary measures to avoid unwanted suitors, including faking their own deaths. Some frog and toad species are explosive breeders.

Two years ago Pounds, a resident scientist at the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, and his colleagues implicated another factor in frog deaths. In this Hot Paper, they compiled data from multiple ...

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These strategies were typically used in combination, which resulted in the escape of 46% of female frogs in the study. Faking their own deaths may have saved their lives. Unfortunately ...

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