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Turns out lots of animals just wait around till maturity and then turn into horny little guys. The genus Antechinus is no exception as males will mate over and over until exhaustion.

Allan's Sources:

1. Book: “The Secret Lives of Carnivorous Marsupials” by Andrew Baker and Chris Dickman.
2. Kraaijeveld, K. et al. (2006) Does female mortality drive male semelparity in dasyurid marsupials? Proc Biol Sci. 2003 Nov 7; 270(Suppl 2): S251–S253. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0082
3. Holleley CE et al. (2006). Size breeds success: multiple paternity, multivariate selection and male semelparity in a small marsupial, Antechinus stuartii. Mol Ecol. 2006 Oct;15(11):3439-48. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2006.03001.x. PMID: 16968281.
4. Brandies, P.A. et al. (2020). The first Antechinus reference genome provides a resource for pinvestigating the genetic basis of semelparity and age-related neuropathologies. GigaByte. 2020; 2020: gigabyte7. Published online 2020 Nov 5. doi: 10.46471/gigabyte.7
5. Zangrandi, P.L., Vieira, E.M. (2023). Semelparous Reproductive Strategy in New World Marsupials. In: Cáceres, N.C., Dickman, C.R. (eds) American and Australasian Marsupials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08419-5_19

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