If you don't live long enough to catch the disease, but have your babies early, your genes will spread better than if you live longer and reproduce later.
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This would explain why flying animals are so long-lived relative to body size, metabolism, and fertility; they are less crowded, so they have fewer opportunities to catch diseases from conspecifics.
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