If you’re trying to find a date, you want to look your best, right? Snazzy outfit, slick hair, makeup on point – whatever it takes to get the best choice of partner in the Grand Annual Orgy. Sound familiar? Well, it would if you were a toad. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

“Asian Common Toads ( Duttaphrynus melanostictus ) [are] an explosive breeder in which males quickly turn from brown to bright yellow for up to two days during mating,” explains a recent paper aiming to answer, well, why these amphibians shun their normal coloring for neons for a short 48 hours each year.

Their eventual answer? Kind of what you’d expect, honestly: “Our results show that dynamic yellow coloration displayed by males can be easily d

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