by Whiting | Sep 23, 2017 | Animal signals, Behaviour, Colour, Communication, Frog
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...
by Whiting | Feb 10, 2011 | Behaviour, Lab news, Sexual selection
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...
