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Breaking news from the scientific world:

If male crickets live fast they die young, researchers have concluded.
Scientists in Australia fed one group of field crickets a protein-rich diet and another group a protein-poor diet.

The best-fed male insects burned themselves out with their tireless trilling mating calls, causing them to die sooner than their malnourished, quieter counterparts.

The pattern was not mirrored in females, who do not indulge in mating calls.

"Only high quality males can bear the costs of an extreme sexual display," scientists at the University of New South Wales said in an article published in the medical journal Nature.

"Sexual advertisement is costly."

So perhaps married men live longer, not because of being contented and loved, but because they aren't wearing themselves out searching for it?