A fish. A turtle. A dead toad.
However, there is no shortage of records of male frogs getting frisky with something other than a female, clinging on to all sorts – including inanimate objects.
One reason for this bizarre behaviour may be the fact there are so many more female frogs out there than males, leaving some amorous amphibians without a mate, but still with the urge. ‘For a male facing huge competition with rivals to reproduce, it would be advantageous for males to arbitrarily be attracted to – and thus clasp – any female-looking object in order to increase mating probabilities,’ said herpetologist François Brischoux, from La Rochelle University in France.
However, despite the fact that not all frogs and toads mate in this way, the ‘misdirected amplexus’, also known as a very awkward sexual encounter, has been witnessed in a number of other species.Toads also engage in amplexus , plotting all the close encounters by 159 frog species across their family history.
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