Male Turtles Abuse Females on an Island in Great Prespa and They "Commit Suicide" to Escape

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In the most recent count, 19 males were recorded on the island for every female - Females are reported to be falling off the island's rocks to escape.

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On the island of Golem Grand in North Macedonia, visitors can see a chain of turtles climbing one on top of the other like a slow-moving steam engine. It seemed funny to Dragan Arsovski, an ecologist with the Macedonian Ecological Society. Now that he knows what’s really going on, he’s not laughing anymore. This uninhabited island in Lake Prespa is filled with about 1,000 Hermann’s tortoises — mostly males. They aggressively hunt the females, ma…