Sao Paulo, Brazil: Scientists have discovered that a small frog living in the dense rainforests of Brazil also has ‘two faithful wives’ who live in the same ‘house’ with him.
Two marriages and two wives are looked down upon in our society, but polygamy is found not only in humans but also in animals.
Polygamy has so far been discovered in fish, reptiles, mammals (mammals), birds and some non-vertebrate animals. However, this is the first time that the process of having more than one wife (mates) in a frog has been discovered.
This interesting discovery was made by Dr. Fabio de Saa, a biologist at the University of Campinas in Sao Paulo, and his colleagues, the details of which have been published in the latest issue of the online research journal Science Advances.
These details show that the frog, whose scientific name is Thoropa taophora, lives in the cracks of the rocks near the coast in the rainforests of Brazil.
The maximum length of Thoropa taufora can be up to 4 inches, but due to its brownish-red color, it is not easily visible in rocks.
After months of research, experts have discovered that this type of frog has two females with the male that mate with it and lay eggs.
The male frog protects his ‘home’ and keeps the invaders away from the loud cries of the trout. However, if another frog or other animal enters its ‘territory’ and does not pay attention to its sounds, it attacks it with its strong and pointed thumbs.
When experts genetically analyzed the frog’s eggs and tedpole, it was discovered that their genome consisted of the DNA of one of the male frogs and one of the ‘two wives’. It was thus confirmed that the two female frogs were “faithful wives” of the same male frog.