Krill 'gender imbalance' leaves scientists asking: why don't the sexes want to mingle?

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Australian scientists track the call sounds of blue whales for hundreds of kilometres across the ocean to find krill swarms, discovering a puzzling gender imbalance among the tiny crustaceans.

 

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It's the Metoomovement The males are scared...

Cooties.

There probably ain't nothin' worse than an ugly krill.

But gender is a social construct! Apparently!

Did these scientists just assume the gender of krill? Outrageous!!11!!

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