Female frogs resort to fake their deaths to avoid unwanted attention from male frogs. A study by researchers from the Natural History Museum of Berlin sheds new light on the European common frog, suggesting that females frogs do not want to put up with male frogs trying to mate with them, which can sometimes lead to the female’s death, according to The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When male frogs want to mate the male grasps the female around the torso with his forelimbs<\/a> and fertilizes the eggs as they emerge. But he doesn’t wait until she tells him that she is ready to mate, he grabs the female and clings to her for hours, days or even months before she is ready to mate and she has to carry him around with her on a daily basis.<\/p>\n