Example female Tasmanian devils usually outlive the males as babies. Same with some species of sharks. How come this doesn’t create natural populations problems or does it?
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In the case of only few males surviving, this isn’t a problem. Tasmanian Devils are not monogamous and you don’t need a 1:1 pairing, you could have one male Devil impregnate dozens of females.
Look at bees, they are about 1% male, if that. But at the end of the day, males are only needed for one step in the entire process and as long as they are available at that stage, it doesn’t matter too much how many of them are around at other times.
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