Maybe Playing Dead Will Get Him to Leave You Alone?
These female frogs fake death and pretend to be the opposite sex to head off unwanted male attention. The post Maybe Playing Dead Will Get Him to Leave You Alone? appeared first on Nautilus.
When it comes to sex, some female frogs are faking it fairly often—but in a different way than you may think. They are feigning their own deaths when accosted by males they don’t like, a peculiar behavior researchers found in a new study published in Royal Society Open Science.
Mother Nature hasn’t given common frogs, much time for courtship. The creatures, which live throughout Europe and in some parts of Asia, have a very short window to procreate—just
