When you think of an animal playing dead, especially in North America, you probably picture the Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana), commonly known in the region simply as a possum. It’s such an ...

Female frogs aren't hopping to mate with every interested male frog, scientists have found. Instead, they are faking their deaths to escape unwanted attention. Female European common frogs were ...

Grab fast and hang on for hours. A fierce grip is all the courtship finesse a male frog needs in species that reproduce in frenzied mobs. Female European common frogs, however, have at least three ...

They pretend they’re dead and use a variety of other tactics to avoid the advances of overeager males, proving they’re not defenseless and passive. By Elizabeth Preston Some male frogs cannot take a ...

Mating frogs may have been occasionally getting it wrong for hundreds of millions of years. We know that males today will sometimes select an inappropriate partner during the breeding season – a frog ...