[Outreach] Sad strategies: making really bad ideas work for you

In general, organisms try to be as fit as possible by living a long time (surviving) and making as many babies as possible (reproducing). Some animals, however, don’t seem to have gotten this message. The animal kingdom is full of these ‘sad animals`, who have life strategies that seem like very bad ideas. I talked about three of these animals, and how their eccentric strategies, while possibly sad by human standards, still allow them to be fit.

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