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In which animals is necrophilia a common reproductive strategy?

In the Amazonian frog Rhinella proboscidea, the number of males is 10 times greater than the number of females. During the mating season, males, fighting for females, form large balls, under which females sometimes drown. This fact does not stop some males - instead of fighting for the living, they extract eggs from the bodies of dead females and fertilize them. Biologists have called this unique behavior "functional necrophilia."

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