00:00When women are harassed on the street they might avoid eye contact or wear
00:07headphones to drown it all out. And in the animal kingdom it turns out female
00:10frogs also have a tactic to avoid incessant males. They fake their own
00:14deaths. A new study has uncovered the practice and they say this changes a lot
00:19of what we thought we knew about frogs. Previously experts believed that females
00:22would simply submit during mating season, during what are often referred to as
00:27Or where a large number of frogs clump up with many males vying and competing for
00:31mates and as many as six males can crowd onto one female. This is where the
00:35females death feigns and other tactics come into play. With the researchers
00:39saying quote we observed three female avoidance behaviors namely rotation
00:43release calls and tonic immobility. Death feigning. Most females 83% would attempt
00:48to twist their bodies to get away from their mates. A further 48% would use
00:52release calls where they would actually mimic the sounds of males and 25% would
00:57then fake their own death until released. With the researchers finding that it
01:00worked better than other means especially for smaller female frogs.
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