Male antechinuses live through just a single, extremely intense mating season. So to maximize their chances at sex, these little carnivorous marsupials waste as little time on sleep as possible, new ...
These small male marsupials give up sleep for sex, then die after intense mating season, study finds
For some, happiness is getting enough sleep. But for a small marsupial in Australia, sex is a higher priority than getting some shut-eye — and it is willing to sacrifice hours of it daily to reach its ...
For a small number of animals, reproduction marks a biological endpoint rather than a stage in an ongoing life cycle. Death ...
Tiny Australian mammals have been observed eating each other during grueling 14-hour mating sessions, that ultimately result in the males' death. The bizarre behavior was first observed by Sunshine ...
The sex life of a tiny Australian marsupial known as an antechinus is already pretty bizarre. But now its mating season has gotten even stranger – and darker – thanks to the introduction of ...
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