On the island of Golem gradenorth of Macedoniavisitors can see a chain of turtles that ride each other like a slow-moving libidinous locomotive. TO Dragan Arsovskienvironmentalist Macedonian Ecological Societyhe used to find it funny. Now that he knows what’s really happening, he’s not laughing anymore.
This uninhabited island of a country that was part of Yugoslavia is plagued by almost 1000 Hermann’s turtlesespecially males. They pursue their mates aggressively, making life unhealthy and short for the few females on the island. Some of those females even They die when they fall off cliffs of the island. In an article published last month in the magazine Ecology Lettersresearchers have discovered that the relentless males are driving their population to extinction.
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