Anonymous ID: 23ec2d July 28, 2024, 5:58 p.m. No.21312272   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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>We are the frogs of war, the breakers of narratives, the diviners of truth, the news, the band of anons, the comfy few.

'We are the frogs…'

How Female Frogs Fight Off the Mating Ball

 

You might see six or seven males attached to a single female.

“It can look disgusting, I have to say,” Dr. Dittrich said. A female caught in this entanglement, called a mating ball, can perish — perhaps by drowning, or being crushed.

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One-third of females faked death when a male grabbed them.

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In Dr. Dittrich’s experiments, that wasn’t the only way females tried to escape mating. More than 80 percent of females rolled in the water to shake off their partners.

 

Additionally, nearly half of females gave distinct calls that sounded just like the noise a male makes when he’s accidentally grabbed by another male. The females seemed to be impersonating the males, Dr. Dittrich said, so that their suitors would look elsewhere.

 

Their evasive maneuvers, often used in combination, worked. Out of 54 females grabbed by a male, 25 managed to shake him off.

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do male frogs use body size to select the best mate? — the answer is no.

 

“They are really not choosy at all,” Dr. Dittrich said. “They grab whatever they can.”