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Female Galápagos birds flaunt their sexual partners. The males don’t seem to mind.

A Galápagos bird species is stunning behaviorists with their “freewheeling” lifestyles. Described in the journal PLOS One, female Nazca boobies (Sula granti) will openly mate with potentially dozens of males before settling on a parenting...

Dec 09, 2025

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