PARIS: The Bombay night frog, scientists revealed Tuesday, favours a mating position previously unknown among the amphibian group’s 7,000 species, only the seventh catalogued in what might be called the Kamasutra for frogs.
Dubbed the “dorsal straddle,” the new nuptial is an evolutionary case study in how sexual selection always finds a way -- no matter how contorted or acrobatic -- for sperm and egg to hook up.
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