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Female frogs fake their own death to avoid unwanted attention from males: Study (abcnews.go.com)

submitted 2 years ago by dphile@lemm.ee to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 53 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Please don't jump to conclusions yet. This has been observed in European common frogs so if your advances towards, say, Tasmanian toad, have been refused and the toad appears to be dead, it might be, in fact, dead.

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[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'll fuck it anyway, just in case...

No, wait, I mean ...

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Yes, this post right here, officer.

[–] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Really as a scientist you can be smart enough to discover such a thing, but apparently that's no guarantee you're also smart enough to keep it to yourself

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Now, I know why women I approach were inexplicably dead. They weren't dead, they were playing dead to avoid me.

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Found the frog.

[–] csfirecracker@lemmyf.uk 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

On the internet, nobody knows you're really a frog

[–] Meho_Nohome@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Unless you send them a dick pic

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sounds like my wedding night!

[–] Halafax@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Haha. That was my wedding night. Funny and sad in equal measure.

[–] doppelgangmember@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Ladies, men hate this one simple trick!

[–] lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago

Same girly, same