“Polyamory” in Frogs—An Example for Humans to Follow?

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By Ken Ham

Last summer I wrote a blog about so-called “gender-fluid tomatoes.” These were Australian tomatoes that have a strange reproductive strategy that some were saying showed that the “sexual binary [of male and female]” is a “fallacy,” which is an utterly ridiculous argument. Well, now it’s frogs making the news for their reproductive strategy, with the headline, “Longterm polyamory seems to work just fine for these frogs.”

According to a new study, rainforest frogs (Thoropa taophora) are the first known amphibians where the male forms a “lasting relationship” with more than one female. (Many other animals, such as lions, do …read more

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