3 months ago 6 notes

Spiders dodge cannibalism through remote copulation

In other animal-related news, male orb-spiders break off their own genitals while inside females, which keeps pumping semen into her, to increase the odds of fertilisation in case the female, which has a penchant for cannibalism, decides to eat him. (This strategy is probably not recommended for humans.)

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