Male Xenopus laevis frogs have been observed to clasp other males in a sustained. amplectant position. the purpose of which is unknown. We examined three possible hypotheses for this counter-intuitive behavior: 1) clasping males fail to discriminate the sex of the frogs they clasp; 2) male-male clasping is an aggressive or dominant behavior; or 3) that males clasp other males to gain ... https://www.relicsbook.com/product-category/friends/