Two years ago, Juan Díaz Ricaurte was hiking through the mountains of Brazil when a male yellow cururu toad affixed itself to his boot. Díaz Ricaurte gently detached the frog and set it back on the ...

They pretend they’re dead and use a variety of other tactics to avoid the advances of overeager males, proving they’re not defenseless and passive. By Elizabeth Preston Some male frogs cannot take a ...

Grab fast and hang on for hours. A fierce grip is all the courtship finesse a male frog needs in species that reproduce in frenzied mobs. Female European common frogs, however, have at least three ...

“She’s just not that into you” isn’t a sentiment that male European common frogs seem to understand—at least not during breeding season. This means their female counterparts have to take more dramatic ...