A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Minnesota has unveiled that it is not only the tendency of humans, but of frogs as well to seek a mate who has the ability of multitasking.

The study of mating calls led the researchers discover that the female gray tree frogs seek mates, which could produce rapidly pulsating, long and recurrent mating calls.

Lead researcher Jessica Ward said that the duration of typical mating calls for the frog species was of 20-40 pulses a call as well as something between five and 15 calls a minute. A tradeoff was faced by male frogs between duration and call rate.

The report concluded that the females did not prefer any simple task. The multitasking ability just was kind of dancing and singing all together.

It is being said that the hypothesis that females preferred males with the desirable quality of doing more than one thing at once was proved correct by the study. Recordings of 1,000 mating calls suggested that males producing longer calls were doing so at shorter rates.

"It's easy to imagine that we humans might also prefer multitasking partners, such as someone who can successfully earn a good income, cook dinner, manage the finances", in the words of Ward.