A team of researchers from the University of California, Baylor University and Sonoma State University, has found that male northern elephant seals are willing to risk their lives to eat more so that they will have a greater chance of mating. In their paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the group describes how they attached tracking devices to elephant seals over a nine-year period and what they learned from the data they obtained.
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Source: Phys.org