Snake Study Supports Longer Life for Less Aggressive Sex (1 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Snake Study Supports Longer Life for Less Aggressive Sex (1 of 3)

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An injured kukri snake. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the April 24th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by C.-Y. Lee at National Changhua University of Education in Changhua, Taiwan, and colleagues was titled, "When males live longer: Resource-driven territorial behavior drives sex-specific survival in snakes."

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Wen-San Huang

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