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According to a recent study at the University of Exeter, Male field crickets age more slowly if there is an excess of females around.
The new study compared years when male-female numbers were roughly equal with years when there were twice as many females as males. When females were plentiful, the rate at which male mortality increased as they aged was reduced by about 50%.
The scientists came to the conclusion that competing heavily with other males for limited females was more detrimental than having access to more females, mating more, and competing less.
As well [as] becoming more frail with age, in years with equal numbers of males and females, males experienced a rapid decline in chirping—but when females outnumbered males two-to-one there was no decline at all.
Similarly "males in years with more competition aged faster"
The study was conducted over nine years on field cricket populations that had varying ratios of male and female crickets.
Perhaps wisely, the authors did not draw any human implications from their results.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 03 2019, @07:05PM (1 child)
well i still believe that woman are smarter then men... like ALOT.
compare Y to X chromosom. its yuge.
all the paranoia about government spying, lizard people, etc etc it's juzt tiny holes where female
dominance over the planet sprung a tiny leak.
in reality men are slaves to woman kind.
they colaborated so much as to guarantee a oversupply of males to woman.
looking at my chicken population it's about 75% male to 25% female hatching eggs.
and to pull the last rug from your male ego rug ... in emergences (and some male slave scienticts) femalez can propagate without men. some animals can even do it without coming up with elaborate "science" theoriez.
so somebody just go a thousand chricket karma pointz and pissing off dominating femaleness by engineering a paradies :)
p.s. the proof of this theory is that we (males) will never get a artificial womb and robot companion ... ever.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 04 2019, @10:53PM
Spotted the female trying to pass as a man.