Female cane toads inflate their bodies so males they don't want to mate with can't hold on.
The female cane toad can pump herself up to mega-size to throw off smaller males striving to mate with her.
The unusual tactic suggests that female anurans, as frogs and toads are called, may have far more power to select their sex partner than thought, according to their study, appearing in the British journal Biology Letters.
Female cane toads (Bufo marinus) are typically choosier than males when it comes to reproduction.
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