| The males mount the females' backs, grasping them with their fore limbs under the armpits in a grip that is known as amplexus. |
| Of these, most resulted from a female initiating amplexus with a calling male. |
| Axillary amplexus typically results in long strings of eggs being laid in ponds or streams, which hatch into type IV tadpoles. |
| Most anurans have external fertilization, and adopt a mating posture called amplexus to insure contact between eggs and sperm. |
| In amplexus the members of a pair sometimes become glued together by their viscous dermal secretions. |
| Quick climb onto my back and cry wreck it wreck it like a frog in the grip of ecstatic amplexus. |
