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The Difference Between Males and Females
For humans, disagreement over the right temperature usually plays out as conflict over who controls the thermistat but for most non human animals, warming up or cooling off means moving to a different place. That might explain why the animal kingdom is chalk full of species that split up by sex outside of the breeding season. In australia, male kangaroos are more likely than females to park it in the shade during the hottest part of the day. On the island of madagascar, female gray dwarf lemers tend to huddle up in warmer spots while solitary males nest in cooler areas.
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