Female frogs may eat male suitors after mating call in act of ‘sexual cannibalism,’ new theory suggests
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During the encounter, which Dr Gould captured on video, a high-pitched scream is audible from the male as he struggles to escape her grasp, and being pulled deeper into a depression on the side of a pond during the breeding season.