Please don’t jump to conclusions yet. This has been observed in European common frogs so if your advances towards, say, Tasmanian toad, have been refused and the toad appears to be dead, it might be, in fact, dead.
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Now, I know why women I approach were inexplicably dead. They weren’t dead, they were playing dead to avoid me.
Sounds like my wedding night!
Ladies, men hate this one simple trick!
Same girly, same