A trick that salesmen use to sell expensive cars may help average frogs snag mates. Female túngara frogs often switch which of two mating calls they prefer upon hearing a third, unattractive mating ...

Females tend to select the more attractive of two potential mates but in a new study, researchers have found that the female túngara frogs that live in Central America are susceptible to the so-called ...

A graduate student and her advisor in the Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin have discovered that female frogs are also prone to the decoy effect. Two male túngara frogs make mating calls ...

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 28 (UPI) --The mating decision of a female frog is rather simple to predict when she is presented with only a binary choice. She will make the rational decision and select the more ...

Female túngara frogs don't get easily torn between two lovers, but when a third wheel joins the pursuit, it becomes an entirely different story. When two male suitors, whose mating calls vary ...

Picking a mate can be one of life’s most important decisions. But sometimes people make a choice that seems to make no sense at all. And humans aren’t the only ones — scientists have now seen ...