(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 ...
Some frog and toad species are explosive breeders. This means they have short reproductive periods, requiring them to gather in large numbers to mate. Hundreds, possibly even thousands, of animals ...
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 ...
The Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana) is well known for its ability to play dead when under threat from a predator. It's such an iconic scene that anyone or anything feigning death can be said ...