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Female Tortoises 'Walking Off Cliffs to Their Doom' to Avoid Sexual Advances
On Golem Grad island, male Hermann's tortoises outnumber females 19 to 1, causing female cliff falls, reduced reproduction, and a predicted female extinction by 2083.
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Female Tortoises Walk Off Cliffs to Avoid Overwhelming Sexual Aggression from Males, Study Finds
Scientists predict that the last female tortoise on the island of Golem Grad in North Macedonia will die in 2083Stock image of three Hermann's tortoises GettyNEED TO KNOWFemale tortoises facing constant sexual aggression from males are walking off cliffs to avoid the male tortoises, according to a new reportA new study published Jan. 26 in the journal Ecology Letters has found that males vastly outnumber their female counterparts on the island o…
On the island of Golem Grad in northern Macedonia, turtles are teeming, but there are strikingly more males than females. Researchers have now found out that the females commit suicide – because of the sexual aggressiveness of the males. On 19 males only one female comes on Golem Grad. This imbalance in the Greek tortoises has far-reaching consequences for the females. Because for reproduction they are hunted down by the males. Several males fol…
The female Hermann turtles on the island of Golem Grad could soon die out. The fault is their male counterparts. They harass the females in such a way that they die – or kill themselves.
The tortoise population of a small island in northern Macedonia threatens to die because the aggressive males drive their female counterparts to death
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