At this time of year, the undergrowth is a hive of activity as mouse-sized marsupial carnivores called antechinus come together for a once-in-a-lifetime mating ritual — literally. Australia is home to ...
What if I told you that in Australia, a mouselike marsupial called antechinus breeds so manically during its three-week mating season that the males bleed internally and go blind, until every male ...
MEET the antechinus, a mouse-like marsupial that literally disintegrates by having too much sex. The little fella goes at it nonstop for a few weeks, then dies. Why? This mouse-like marsupial, called ...
Out with a bang Sperm competition drives suicidal reproduction in antechinus and other marsupials, according to a new study by Australian researchers. The research, which was published in the journal ...
The mouse-sized marsupial famed for its mighty mating until it dies has now been observed eating its own dead. Antechinuses are carnivorous marsupials well-known for suicidal sex sessions where all ...
When males die from sex-fuelled exhaustion, still-living members of the species are known to feast on fallen comrades If you are exploring our beautiful Australian wilderness this year, keep an eye ...
A beautiful new species of carnivorous marsupial has been discovered in far south-eastern Queensland and adjacent north-eastern New South Wales. Isolated at high altitude on the Tweed volcanic caldera ...
For a small number of animals, reproduction marks a biological endpoint rather than a stage in an ongoing life cycle. Death follows mating with such consistency that it can be predicted within a ...
This story appears in the June 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a fairy tale by the brothers Grimm, a pied piper’s music lures rats to their doom. What leads the mouselike creature ...
In the forests of Australia, every year just before spring, there erupts a sexual frenzy unlike any other on Earth. It’s bigger than an ultra-romantic Neil Diamond concert, bigger even than spring ...
MEET the antechinus, a mouse-like marsupial that literally disintegrates by having too much sex. The little fella goes at it nonstop for a few weeks, then dies. Why? This mouse-like marsupial, called ...
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