Marsupial Engaging in Fatal Sex Discovered in Australia

Gold Coast hinterlands, Australia – It’s called the black tail carnivorous antechinus where the rat-like marsupial males engage in a roughly month-long mating orgy before literally giving up the ghost.

What a way to die! Well, the species, sure to make Caligula proud, are known to exist only in these high altitude lands withdrawn from the coast and river beds from the Gold Coast through Northern New South Wales.

Scientists observed that the male species hit their uber sexual prime at 11 months and males older than 12 months do not seem to exist.

The scarcity of the species is leading a new push to get the carnivorous antechinus placed on the endangered species list. According to one scientist from the Queensland University of Technology, the marsupial has a striking appearance. Oddly enough, most its striking appearance is described in the color of the marsupial’s rump which is orange-brown colored and from which its tail emerges and becomes black in color. T

he marsupial is also quite hairy giving it a shaggy look. Scientists have observed the male species engage in mating at such high rates as to cause them bodies to literally exhaust inducing death. Just prior to engaging in the flurry of mating activity, the males undergo a spike in stress hormones giving them the impetus to become virile.