You can really die of lust: the marsupial exhausts itself in weeks of orgies

Can you a person dies of estrus, is asked in Finland’s Eurovision song. Missing it is possible if you suffer from cardiovascular diseases and the tension becomes too great.

There is also a mammal that actually dies of estrus, quite routinely. Australian marsupial.

This small spawning marsupial copulates itself in orgies that last for days or even weeks. It caresses so intensely that it bleeds internally and the legs go gangrene. In the end, the marsupial’s immune system fails and the creature collapses on the ground having given its all.

This happens every year to all males. Only in extremely rare cases does the marsupial not die of estrus.

Pussipedot (Antechinus) are mouse- or small-rat-sized rodents that eat mainly insects.

The traditional name for these critters is actually the broad-legged bag fly, but the proposed new name marsupial is in many ways more appropriate.

Every year, marsupials prepare for extremely tough reproductive periods. The males are already ready in the breeding pits when the females come into heat. Then the marsupial puts his whole life on the line.

A merciless torpor begins, which can last 14 hours a day and up to three weeks straight. The dogs run after the females like crazy. “I love you like I’m crazy,” he sang Olavi Virta once.

The marsupial’s body is flooded with testosterone and the stress hormone cortisol, eventually so that the body gives up.

The coat of the marsupial comes off in pieces and the infections cause gangrene. Even as a half-dead zombie, the little beast tries to mate. Then the heart stops.

If there are several species of marsupials living in the same area, whose estrus is scheduled at different times, the males of the other species will eat these carcasses of heroes who died during mating. This way they get energy for their own orgies, which will soon come.

Pussipedot are few mammals with such a reproductive strategy. Under the guise of Eurovision, we learn a new culture word. An animal that dies of estrus is semelparine. So it reproduces only once and then dies.