- An act of acrobatics keeps males of one orb-weaving spider species from becoming their mates’ post-sex snack.After mating, Philoponella prominens males catapult away from females at speeds up to nearly 90 centimeters per second & soar through the air to avoid sexual cannibalism. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/orb-spiders-mating-male-catapult-female-sex-cannibalism 168 comments science
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- Male spiders avoid sexual cannibalism with a catapult mechanism: Current Biology https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)00485-7 41 comments
- This spider slingshots itself at extreme speeds to catch prey https://www.sciencenews.org/article/slingshot-spider-web-acceleration 11 comments
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