On a remote island in North Macedonia, male Hermann’s tortoises outnumber females 19 to 1, an imbalance driving the population to extinction.
On a remote island in North Macedonia, male Hermann’s tortoises outnumber females 19 to 1, an imbalance driving the population to extinction.
Sex determination in some turtles is via temperature. Warming seas are creating too many female sea turtles.
These aren’t turtles and they presumably have similar environmental conditions to the nearby mainland tortoises.