{"id":97192,"date":"2026-02-17T10:43:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=97192"},"modified":"2026-02-18T10:43:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:43:58","slug":"constant-sexual-aggression-drives-female-tortoises-to-walk-off-cliffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/02_17_2026\/constant-sexual-aggression-drives-female-tortoises-to-walk-off-cliffs","title":{"rendered":"Constant Sexual Aggression Drives Female Tortoises to Walk Off Cliffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jeanine Refsnider, an associate professor of environmental sciences, discusses an unusual extinction vortex that researchers have identified on an island in North Macedonia.<\/p>\n<p><b>Read: <\/b><b><u><a href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2026%2F02%2F14%2Fscience%2Ftortoises-island-sex-cliff.html&amp;data=05%7C02%7CNicole.Gorny%40UToledo.Edu%7C57325ae87e4345f9a4be08de6e3d30be%7C1d6b1707baa94a3da8f8deabfb3d467b%7C0%7C0%7C639069406659290908%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=HFh2Cwzwhcse%2Bg1HcJVfwZRYxukWyccY%2B8D3EVvEiQs%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-outlook-id=\"a3e18fa0-47ba-42e9-a552-57e7edbfc8df\">Constant Sexual Aggression Drives Female Tortoises to Walk Off Cliffs<\/a><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jeanine Refsnider, an associate professor of environmental sciences, discusses an unusual extinction vortex that researchers have identified on an island in North Macedonia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[101],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97193,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97192\/revisions\/97193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}