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Amanda
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What else could help them resist their fatal attraction to them?

Still trying to figure out their behavior from a Darwinian perspective.

A short life but a merry one, I guess. Mommy kalutas had better be ready for single parenthood!

The strange sex life of the kaluta

PS Bet you didn't know what semelparity meant!


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jon-nyc
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And I thought I had made some stupid decisions in that department.


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During these brief, frenzied breeding seasons, male kalutas mate with several females — for up to 14 hours at a time — until they succumb to exhaustion and die.


Respect.


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Mikhailoh
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That would likely kill me too.


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