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Published online 17 October 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news011018-8
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Birds snub old flames
Repelling clingy exes helps snipe save sperm.
The American writer Gore Vidal once said that he never passed up an opportunity to have sex or appear on television. Some male birds would disagree on at least one count.
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