(CN) — Female frogs have the uncanny ability to block out unwanted sounds, which comes especially handy during the ribbeting spring mating season. Around April frog habitats become a chorus of mating ...
“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 ...
Drawing parallels with other species, not naming names, the voices of female frogs are being drowned out by their much louder male counterparts – so much so we only know how 1.4% of the ladies ...
Humans aren’t the only beings that “ghost” in relationships. When invertebrates and vertebrates fake their own deaths, it's usually been observed as a tactic to avoid predators. Female frogs, however, ...
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) ...