Posted on 02/27/2024 1:18:49 PM PST by Red Badger
Frog mating can be a competitive and sometimes deadly affair as many males compete for females – but females have some tricks to avoid unwanted attention
Male frogs commonly coerce female frogs into mating, but some females have come up with ways to avoid harassment – including playing dead.
Many frog species, including the European common frog (Rana temporaria), only have a short window of a few weeks each year to mate. This means that lots of males simultaneously compete for the attention of females, sometimes leading to deadly clashes as individuals are submerged under a competing group of males.
“It could be that there are several males clinging to one female, which often leads to the death of the female,” says Carolin Dittrich at the Natural History Museum in Berlin, Germany.
Now, Dittrich and her colleagues have found that female common frogs employ a few different tactics to evade males.
The team collected common frogs during the breeding season – 96 females and 48 males – and placed one male and two differently sized females in a box filled with 5 centimetres of water. The frogs were then allowed to move freely for 1 hour while the team recorded their behaviour.
Of the 54 female frogs that were embraced by a male as part of the mating process, 83 per cent rotated away, making it the most common escape tactic.
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An I ask myself if she was asleep or not.... Who cares!
There’s a Cosby joke in here somewhere.
...she drops her nail file if she has an orgasm.
Sometimes people need comic relief.
Hey Red, whaddyasay to all of this?
That’s not new. 😆
Absolutely...I count myself in that group.
I will enthusiastically jump feet first into the most politically incorrect thread that compares mating frogs who play dead during sex, if I think it will make me grin!
That probably makes me a bad person, but...whattya gonna do?
I’ve been there. But you had to expect it on that one.
Well ya gotta kiss a lot of frogs before ya find a prince...
Maybe theyre not good kissers...
:)
**women really get into it**
When I realized a date was eager to light my fire (which happened on two of my over two dozen first dates), I knew it was time to look elsewhere. I wasn’t interested in getting one or all the negative drawbacks of a brief time of euphoria.
My bride of over 45 yrs has almost always left it to me to light the fire. (Oh, sometimes she likes to see how incredibly subtle she can give a hint) I like it that way.
From their own admissions, the over eager chicks I dated had been ‘broken in’ by experienced guys.
Glad I (and my wife) waited for marriage.
LOL! I’m sure many men have experienced this phenomena too.
I think you are the winner.
I think it makes us human, not necessarily bad.
Humans call this star fish sex.
Dead or not, hop to it.
Love that!
My mama told me that when my first boyfriend broke up with me. I was crushed, and that was Mama’s way of gently telling me that he wouldn’t be my last boyfriend; that there were other fish in the sea.
She was right about that, and then I learned to be a little bit picky! I found my prince, too!
I knew the response to this post would not disappoint and I was right.
“A thread on the sexual activity of frogs gets 35 responses in a half hour!”
A study once determined that the average teenage male thought about sex once every fifteen minutes.
My question was what was he thinking about the OTHER fourteen minutes?
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