Finally, science has added another species to the list of creatures that have bravely decided to shirk the traditional constraints of monogamy, and embrace a more open, expansive vision of love
A male Thoropa taophora, living and loving out loud. Photo: Fábio de Sá . As the New York Times reports, a paper published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances confirmed that, during its breeding season, the male Thoropa taophora — a river frog with “surprisingly well-muscled forearms” in Brazil’s Atlantic rainforest — will mate “recurrently and exclusively” with two unrelated females, thus forming an amphibious throuple of sorts. Nice.
Is this set-up as fun for the female frogs? Sadly, it doesn’t seem so. Female frogs are often forced into these situations by necessity. Thoropa mating depends on what are called seeps — wet and rocky habitats where the frog’s eggs can mature into tadpoles. Male frogs fight over control of the seeps, and when all of the seeps in an area have been claimed, female frogs must get in line in the hopes of gaining “consistent membership” in some frog guy’s micro-harem.
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