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Spiders Catapult Themselves to Avoid Becoming Their Mate’s Meal
View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Certain orb-weaving spiders have developed a catapult-like mechanism to spring to safety and avoid sexual cannibalism, an international research ...
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These Spiders Hunt in Packs
Bryce McQuillan, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Yet, they do not tolerate rival colonies, and they will resort to ...
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A spider’s pursuit of older mates can have grisly results
No wonder they’re called widow spiders. To get sex with an older ... Not one of the males that mated with the youngest females died from cannibalism—but more than half those that mated with ...
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Male Fishing Spiders' Ultimate Sacrifice (IMAGE)
A female dark fishing spider (left) and its male counterpart ... of Nebraska-Lincoln and Gonzaga University has found that this cannibalism can benefit the male's offspring.