Female frogs would sometimes go as far as faking their own deaths to avoid male attention, scientists have found. Researchers assessed mate avoidance behaviour in European common frog and found that ...

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 ...

Next time you spot a frog that appears to be dead, it could just be the female amphibian trying to escape male attention, scientists have discovered. Research has shown that female European common ...

Female frogs fake their deaths to avoid sexual interactions, a new study has found. Experts previously believed that she-frogs weren’t able to fend off unwanted male attention — in the form of ...

While "ghosting" is a popular method of ending a relationship with a potential suitor for humans, female frogs take that concept to the next level.In a phenomenon dubbed "tonic immobility," a recent ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — While “ghosting” is common in getting out of an unwanted relationship for humans, female frogs will fake their own death in order to avoid mating advances from male frogs, ...