The weird, wonderful and ultimately exhausting life of the antechinus

Update: 2022-03-24

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This marsupial mouse enters its first mating season with a thirty-fold increase in testosterone. It copulates at a frenetic rate, only to collapse afterwards, dying from its exertions. But now climate change is posing a much more serious threat to the species than sex

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The weird, wonderful and ultimately exhausting life of the antechinus

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The weird, wonderful and ultimately exhausting life of the antechinus

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The weird, wonderful and ultimately exhausting life of the antechinus