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Австралийская сумчатая мышь делает это в зимние месяцы. Один раз, но наверняка - 12 часов подряд. А потом подыхает от истощения. Antechinus Breeding occurs in winter (usually August–September) at a time when there is little food available in the environment, and in order to ensure breeding success, male antechinuses strip their body of vital proteins and also suppress the immune system so as to free up additional metabolic energy. In this way an individual male trades away long-term survival in return for short-term breeding success, and following the breeding season there is a complete die-off of physiologically exhausted males. Breeding is intensely competitive. Males produce large amounts of testosterone and mate-guarding occurs in the form of protracted copulation (up to twelve hours in some species). Писать я, конечно, пишу, но порадовать своих преданных читателей отрывками из дневничка смогу только в выходные. |
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