Today: Is it true that some female frogs play dead to avoid sex? Did Jimmy Carter say Christianity was "hijacked"?

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Biologists call the behavior “tonic immobility,” or sometimes “thanatosis,” and until recently, it was associated almost exclusively with prey animals playing dead to escape predators. But recently, researchers noticed that the females of one common frog species appear to exhibit the behavior during mating, too. Jack Izzo has the story. [Read Now](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnQKqSP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvdWs2cmsyMXVtcy8_bGhfYWlkPTQ2MDA2OTImbGhfY2lkPXY0cGhnNm5iZ2wmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZVWSJV5lSSK8oFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAABb) More From Snopes ~/AASU4wA~/RgRnQKqSP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvd29yMTcyYWd0NC8_bGhfYWlkPTQ2MDA2OTImbGhfY2lkPXY0cGhnNm5iZ2wmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZVWSJV5lSSK8oFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAABb Did Jimmy Carter Say Christianity Was Hijacked by People Who Would 'Give Jesus Himself the Boot'? 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