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Thursday, 04/28/2022 5:31:13 PM

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Risky dating - Date From Hell: Sexual Cannibalism in Female Spiders


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Female St Andrew’s Cross Spider practices sexual cannibalism. Only the fittest males can court, mate, and then evade the female. They are only found in Australia and live in the margins of the rainforest. With long legs but a small body, the female spider waits for prey upside down on her web, with her legs are arranged in pairs, resembling a diagonal cross.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpNWlx3Hf3o

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Spider avoids being eaten after sex by launching itself away at 88cm/s


25,145 views Apr 26, 2022

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To escape sexual cannibalism, some animals or even play dead – but male orb-weaving
spiders have developed another approach: after copulation, they rapidly catapult to safety.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpg5zsMMTIE

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