News tagged with sexual cannibalism
Mantis males engage in riskier mating behavior if deprived of female access
Male praying mantises are more likely to engage in risky mating behavior if they have not had recent access to females, as reported Apr. 25 in the open access journal PLoS ONE. Female praying mantises are kn ...
Apr 25, 2012 |
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Competition between females leads to infanticide in some primates
An international team of scientists, with Spanish participation, has shed light on cannibalism and infanticide carried out by primates, documenting these acts for the first time in the moustached tamarin (Saguinus my ...
Jun 08, 2011 |
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Male wolf spiders cannibalize females
(PhysOrg.com) -- While most people are familiar with the fact that many species of female spiders eat their male counterparts, new research findings published in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society show h ...
Apr 13, 2011 |
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Exposed: The strange sex life of spiders
Here's the good news: you are a male and you are allowed to have sex, at most, twice in your life. If that's the good news -- you may well ask -- what's the bad news? It's this: if you copulate for longer ...
Apr 20, 2010 |
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In spiders, size matters: Small males are more often meals
Female spiders are voracious predators and consume a wide range of prey, which sometimes includes their mates. A number of hypotheses have been proposed for why females eat males before or after mating. Researchers ...
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Sep 10, 2008 |
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The best both of worlds -- how to have sex and survive
Researchers have discovered that even the gruesome and brutal lifestyle of the Evarcha culicivora, a blood gorging jumping spider indigenous to East Africa, can’t help but be tempted by that ‘big is beautiful’ mantra no matter ...
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Sep 20, 2007 |
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Male mantids try to avoid sex cannibalism
Female praying mantids are notorious for sexual cannibalism and U.S. researchers have determined male mantids try to avoid that fate.
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Jul 27, 2006 |
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