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Female frogs, specifically the European common frog, deploy a number of strategies to ward off hyper-amorous males, including faking their own deaths. Researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin publish the sex-averse findings in the journal Royal Society Open Science.
Aerial surveys of the North Sea show that some seals practice social distancing, probably for the same reason that humans do – to keep disease from spreading. The research appears in the journal Royal Society Open Science.
A new study tracks the movements of Australia’s endangered northern quoll, a small carnivorous marsupial. Researchers found that the males are losing so much sleep looking for mates that it’s killing them.