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

Look at Me

The Guardian

The weird, wonderful and ultimately exhausting life of the antechinus

MAR 24, 202234 MIN
Look at Me

The weird, wonderful and ultimately exhausting life of the antechinus

MAR 24, 202234 MIN

Description

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