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Climate change is turning 99 percent of these baby sea turtles female
Washington Post ^
| January 8, 2018
| By Ben Guarino
Posted on 01/08/2018 12:38:15 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
To: Oldeconomybuyer
“Green sea turtles do not develop into males or females due to sex chromosomes, like humans and most other mammals do.”
Oops, that goes directly against the propaganda of “gender doesn’t exist”.
Washington Post accidentally admitted truth.
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posted on
01/08/2018 12:48:58 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Ive never seen a green sea turtle, and its not on my bucket list. So how exactly does this affect me?
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posted on
01/08/2018 12:49:23 PM PST
by
Rebelrage
("To crush your enemies -- See them driven, and to hear the lamentation of their women)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Climate change is turning pseudoscience believers gay.
To: Red Badger
So this should tend to increase the number of green sea turtles..........................
That's the way I would see it as well, as long as green sea turtles aren't monogamous. From a species survivability standpoint, it's better to have an excess of females than an excess of males.
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posted on
01/08/2018 12:49:37 PM PST
by
BlueLancer
(Black Rifle Coffee - Freedom, guns, tits, bacon, and booze!)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
It’s not climate change.
It’s manufactured estrogens in the water.
Send the bill to Big Pharma!
To: Darksheare
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posted on
01/08/2018 12:50:21 PM PST
by
Salamander
(And Ezekiel Smiles Again....)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Are we sure its climate change and not that chemical that's turning all the frogs gay?
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posted on
01/08/2018 12:50:30 PM PST
by
caligatrux
(Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
To: KC_Lion
So the end result is nearly 2x more female turtles laying 2x more eggs and fewer but extremely happy male turtles getting a lot of love. What is not to like?
Warmer weather is good for productivity and therefor good for turtles, maybe this shift towards more remains in good times is adaptive?
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posted on
01/08/2018 12:50:37 PM PST
by
WMarshal
(John McCain is the turd in America's punch bowl. McLame cannot even fake an injury.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Male turtles mate more frequently than female turtles do.That sounds fairly normal, in one sense. In another sense, though, the numbers should be equal (i.e., every time a male mates, so does a female; takes two to tango).
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posted on
01/08/2018 12:50:47 PM PST
by
Migraine
((A smartass who is right can be downright funny. A smartass who is wrong is just a smartass.))
To: BlueLancer
Male turtles and tortoises are pervy little horndogs.
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posted on
01/08/2018 12:51:19 PM PST
by
Salamander
(And Ezekiel Smiles Again....)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Re: 99% Female
Any chance this will affect human beings?
If yes, this old boy wants to live forever!
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Could it be that males from the northern spawning grounds met with females from the south?
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posted on
01/08/2018 12:52:20 PM PST
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
To: Oldeconomybuyer
ZW sex chromosomes. The ZW sex-determination system is found in birds, some reptiles, and some insects and other organisms. The ZW sex-determination system is reversed compared to the XY system: females have two different kinds ofchromosomes (ZW), and males have two of the same kind of chromosomes (ZZ).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-determination_system
Meanwhile:
XX + XX = FAIL
XY + XY = FAIL
XX + XY = Human
Next?
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posted on
01/08/2018 12:52:35 PM PST
by
HLPhat
("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Um...we intentionally eat the males in wild populations to control them because one male can provide the needed activity for many females and therefor the extra males are extraneous load on the environment.
All this article really says is that in the next few years the remaining male turtles are going to unusually satisfied.
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posted on
01/08/2018 12:53:14 PM PST
by
gnarledmaw
(Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
To: Joe 6-pack
In my next reincarnation...
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posted on
01/08/2018 12:53:15 PM PST
by
xzins
(Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
It’s gotten them through the last 250,000,000 years.
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posted on
01/08/2018 12:53:21 PM PST
by
gundog
(Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
To: KC_Lion
Life finds a way.Just a quick check on google shows that sea turtles have been around 65 million years. Another quick check shows that the estimated temp 65 million years ago was radically higher than today.
So now the alarming warming that is "on a pause" is threatening the species? Maybe its more like if you link something to climate change you get grant money.
To: Da Coyote
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01/08/2018 12:54:04 PM PST
by
WMarshal
(John McCain is the turd in America's punch bowl. McLame cannot even fake an injury.)
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