Love-Spurned Frogs Encourage "Threesomes"

[matcom]

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SPANISH zoologists have discovered that male frogs who are losers in love get their revenge by spreading their sperm over eggs that have been left by a pair of romancing amphibians.

The sneaky manoeuvre is dubbed "clutch piracy" by the researchers, who say it sheds intriguing light on the principle of mate selection among frogs and helps explain the creatures' wide genetic diversity.

Until now, the species in question - the common frog (Rana temporaria) - was believed to have a rather humdrum sex life.

The female chose a mate, who would then grasp her and, as she shed a spherical batch of eggs, shed his sperm over the clutch.

After a frantic froggy coupling, the couple would then separate, leaving the eggs to develop into tadpoles and then into frogs.

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10781923%255E13762,00.html

[GOPisEvil]

1. Frantic froggy coupling...

Hehehehehe! :thumbsup:

[Deja Q]

2. Isn't that froggy rape?

Go in behind her back like that and spread his spoo into her eggs so unwillingly?!

What's ma going to think when half of her 50,000 tadpole children look like him?!

[Crunchy Frog]

3. We frogs

don't like to have this aspect of our lives aired out in public.

[Magrittes Pipe]

4. Pics! PICS!

:grr: