- Researchers analysed the sex of almost 2.5 million specimens from five international collections, some dating back over a century & found that Museum collections of birds and mammals may be disproportionately skewed to favour males, even if female members of the species outnumber males in the wild. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.2025 4 comments science
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