Misdirected amplexus is the scientific term that describes male frogs’ odd behavior of trying to mate with things other than frog-kind. And there is now evidence that suggests that this behavior began as far back as 220 million years ago.
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Mating frogs may have been occasionally getting it wrong for hundreds of millions of years. We know that males today will sometimes select an inappropriate partner during the breeding season – a frog from a different species, a turtle, a fish or even an inanimate object.
“For a male facing huge competition with rivals to reproduce, it would be advantageous for males to arbitrarily be attracted to – and thus clasp – any female-looking object in order to increase mating probabilities,” says François Brischoux at La Rochelle University in France.
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