From Atlanta, Ga., at the annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society
Coming home after a few days with another female doesn’t turn out well for male redbacked salamanders.
In the animal soap opera more commonly recorded in scientific literature, a male gets violent if a female visits other males, observes Ethan Prosen of the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. The male’s drive to monopolize paternity explains that story.
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