For each experiment, the team gave the female frogs a choice based on call duration. Normally, the females prefer males with ...

When treefrog females are faced with too many potential mates, all calling for attention, they often fail to choose the best ...

Faced with a chorus of potential mates, female Cope’s gray treefrogs may be overwhelmed by the number of options and struggle ...

Female tree frogs have trouble picking mates when they're spoiled for choice, reveals new research. They struggle to pick the most desirable partners when male suitors abound - much like an indecisive ...

It’s frog-eat-frog in the amphibian dating game. An ecologist has captured the moment a female green and golden bell frog attempted to eat a male suitor. Dr. John Gould, from the University of ...

A trio of biologists from Universidade de São Paulo, Red Ecoacústica Colombia and the University of Missouri System has found that researchers conduct only a fraction of studies of female frog calls ...

When there were just two calls, 77% of the frogs hopped toward the speaker playing the longer, more desirable call, per ...

For years, various posts on social media have claimed that some female frogs play dead to avoid mating. While the behavior might be most closely associated with the Virginia opossum (Didelphis ...