This Can't Be Love: The Curious Case of Sexual Cannibalism by Carl Zimmer - Science - New York Times: "Across the eastern United States, a gruesome ritual is in full swing. The praying mantis and its relative, the Chinese mantis, are in their courtship season. A male mantis approaches a female, flapping his wings and swaying his abdomen. Leaping on her back, he begins to mate. And quite often, she tears off his head."
A very selfish gene...
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