"Harems" of elephant seals cause early death in males
Extreme polygamy could lead to the early death of thousands of male elephant seals, new research suggests. The study surveyed 14.000 elephant seals on Macquarie Island in the southwest Pacific and found that while survival rates for males and females were roughly comparable in their early years, male survival declined rapidly after age eight, …
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