Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Pacific tree frog (Pseudacris regilla) male calls at Washington state's Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge. Cyril Ruoso, ...

When the time is right, a good love song can make all the difference. A study from the University of California, Davis, found that temperature affects the sound and quality of male frogs’ mating calls ...

European common frogs often mate in what's called a "mating ball." In an attempt to reproduce, males seek out and cling to outnumbered females, even those already singled out by other males, in a ...

They pretend they’re dead and use a variety of other tactics to avoid the advances of overeager males, proving they’re not defenseless and passive. By Elizabeth Preston Some male frogs cannot take a ...

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 ...

Female frogs are faking their deaths to escape unwanted attention from male frogs, a study published in Royal Society Open Science found. (Photo by: Philippe Clement/Arterra/Universal Images Group via ...

Genetic parentage analysis of a disease-impacted alpine tree frog population in Australia reveals near-universal genetic monogamy and low reproductive skew despite communal breeding, along with a ...

Romantic overload isn't just a human problem; for one tree frog species, too many suitors can mean making a bad choice, or none at all. A new study on Cope's gray tree frogs in Tennessee finds that ...

The "tonic immobility" behavior was observed in European common frogs. Female frogs are faking their deaths to escape unwanted attention from male frogs, a study published in Royal Society Open ...