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How climate change is affecting how animals and people date and mate

How climate change is affecting how animals and people date and mate

Leave it to climate change to teach us that looks aren’t everything.
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Traits for mating can align with traits for surviving heat

Biologists have, for good reason, spent a huge amount of time trying to understand how animals can survive in the climates in which they live. But how does temperature affect animals beyond just survival?

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Climate change is reducing mating behavior among some birds
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Climate change is reducing mating behavior among some birds

Rising global temperatures are impacting the ability of grassland birds to mate, forcing some males to choose between high-energy mating displays or seeking shelter and saving energy to protect themselves from the heat.

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Climate change may practically sterilize male insects
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Climate change may practically sterilize male insects

Male reproductive damage under heat wave conditions could be contributing to biodiversity declines in the Anthropocene.
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