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Female Frogs Play Dead

All right. Well, female frogs might be on to something here. I get it. Researchers in the National History Museum of Berlin have found that female European common frogs will fake their deaths to avoid unwanted and potentially dangerous male attention. The study's authors say that previously it was believed that these female frogs were defenseless against the males, but their findings show that there are three escape method method. So listen up. OK. The first we already mentioned that's playing dead scientifically, it's called tonic immobility. The second is called rotation where the female will twist her body to escape the male clutches. Kind of sounds like jitsu for frogs. And the third is when they do what it's called a release call where the female will emulate a male frog sound to confuse the male. I love everything about this story. He can I just say that I love the story also nice to know that we're not the only species that have to deal with aggressive people, whether it's men or you know, or women. This is brilliant. I love this story. There are producers for picking it out