Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Female tortoises facing constant sexual aggression from males are walking off cliffs to avoid the male tortoises, according to a ...

Female tortoises are apparently under considerable threat on the island of Golem Grad in North Macedonia, as published in the journal Ecology Letters. During the observations, researchers noted that ...

On the island of Golem Grad in North Macedonia, visitors may see a chain of tortoises mounting each other like a slow-moving, libidinous locomotive. It used to strike Dragan Arsovski, an ecologist at ...

Sexual aggression could be the cause of female tortoises walking off cliffs, according to a new study. The study's researchers found that male Hermann’s tortoises vastly outnumber females on the ...

Female tortoises facing constant sexual aggression from males are walking off cliffs to avoid the male tortoises, according to a new report A new study published Jan. 26 in the journal Ecology Letters ...