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    The document summarizes the mating habits of the male Antechinus mouse in Australia. During the winter months, male Antechinus engage in a two-week frenzy of mating with multiple females. This extreme mating causes the males' stress hormones and immune systems to deteriorate, often resulting in death for the males within a week of starting to mate. The biologist Professor Chris Dickman has studied this bizarre mating ritual as part of his long-term ecological research in Central Australia.

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    The document summarizes the mating habits of the male Antechinus mouse in Australia. During the winter months, male Antechinus engage in a two-week frenzy of mating with multiple females. This extreme mating causes the males' stress hormones and immune systems to deteriorate, often resulting in death for the males within a week of starting to mate. The biologist Professor Chris Dickman has studied this bizarre mating ritual as part of his long-term ecological research in Central Australia.

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    Woollahra Mammal Man Fi Nds A Lovefest in The Desert: Learn To Play Bridge

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    The document summarizes the mating habits of the male Antechinus mouse in Australia. During the winter months, male Antechinus engage in a two-week frenzy of mating with multiple females. This extreme mating causes the males' stress hormones and immune systems to deteriorate, often resulting in death for the males within a week of starting to mate. The biologist Professor Chris Dickman has studied this bizarre mating ritual as part of his long-term ecological research in Central Australia.

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    VILLAGE LIFE

    Woollahra mammal man finds a lovefest in the desert


    By Lauren Farrow and diseases,” he said.
    For some wild Australians, the winter Within a week of the lovefest
    months are when things really start commencing, all the males have
    heating up. dropped dead.
    Between July and August, the This bizarre mating ritual is one
    male Antechinus, fuelled by a rapid of many mammal behaviours that
    rise in stress hormones, will embark have captured Chris’ interest over
    on a two week breeding rampage. the years.
    During this wild fortnight, the fe- As a professor in ecology at the
    males of this tiny, shrew-like marsu- University of Sydney’s school of
    pial will mate with as many as two- biological sciences, Chris has been
    dozen males, Woollahra biologist heading to Central Australia every
    Professor Chris Dickman said. few months since 1989 to trap, ana-
    But while these nights of non- lyse and record wildlife, in the long-
    stop passion are exciting for the est running study of its kind in the
    male Antechinus, they carry with Southern hemisphere.
    them some nasty side effects. What he has found is that while
    “The surge in stress hormones the Simpson Desert, with its moun-
    are so dramatic that they are able tainous red dunes and temperatures
    to run around day and night, but it in the high 40s, might seem like an
    degrades their muscles and attacks inhospitable place, it is home to a
    their gastro intestinal tract,” Chris greater diversity of species than any
    said. other desert in the world. And its in-
    Woollahra biologist and professor of ecology Chris Dickman measures a sand “Their immune system is also habitants are full of surprises.
    goanna, Varanus gouldii, during a trip to the Simpson Desert. suppressed so they catch parasites “Small animals are capable of

    
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