A new study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science suggests that female European common frogs sometimes fake their deaths to escape unwanted male attention during mating season.
Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 and interned with the brand in 2022. Her work has previously appeared in digital publications like Paper Magazine and TV Insider.Female frogs will take extreme measures to escape unwanted attention from their male counterparts, a new study found.
Of the three tactics, "tonic immobility," or feigning death — a behavior typically used in the animal kingdom to avoid predators — is the most extreme. The scientists also found that all three avoidance tactics, including playing dead, were used more frequently by smaller female frogs, who were more successful in escaping the males who clung to them.
"I think even if we call this species a common frog and think we know it well, there are still aspects we don't know and perhaps haven't thought about," Dittrich told The Guardian. to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
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