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CRIMES OF PASSION
Rough sex for many species can range from brutal love bites to lethal lust. Male dung flies, mountain sheep and some frogs, in their zeal to procreate, will swarm, harass and harm females, sometimes fatally. For Hawaiian monk seals, where males outnumber females 3 to 1, mating violence is so serious that biologists are worried that the species may be endangered.
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PHOTOGRAPH BY VICTORIA MCCORMIC/ANIMALS ANIMALS


FROM THE JAN. 19, 2003 ISSUE OF TIME MAGAZINE; POSTED SUNDAY, JAN. 11, 2003
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