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Female Frogs Employ Evasive Tactics to Avoid Unwanted Mating

  • Female frogs exhibit behaviors like feigning death and calling out to escape aggressive male attention during mating season.
  • Mass mating events create risks for female frogs who can be smothered by crowds of eager males.
  • Smaller female frogs utilize tactics like "tonic immobility" more often and tend to evade male advances.
  • Females imitate male warning calls and vigorously twist their bodies to dislodge clinging males.
  • Research shows female frogs are not passive in mating and have evolved techniques to control their reproduction.
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