Imagine being a frog during the chaos of the breeding season and navigating the gathering crowds around the pond. How do you know who might be a suitable mate let alone whether they are male or female? One solution is colour. If one sex, typically males, is able to turn on some bright colour . . . → Read More: Turn up the colour: male frogs use bright colours to avoid confusion at the pond
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 Comments are closed  Animal signals, Behaviour, Colour, Communication, Frog  colour change, dynamic sexual dichromatism, frog, Grant Webster, Litoria revelata, Litoria wilcoxii, Rayna Bell, The Lizard Lab African foam nesting frogs represent one of the most extreme examples of polyandry in a vertebrate and this is thought to be a fertility insurance mechanism. Our paper, just published online, shows that offspring from polyandrous matings had both significantly higher mean survival and reduced variance in offspring survival. We suggest that this is . . . → Read More: Polyandrous frogs |
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