Monday, 19 January 2015

Coin Spiders Chop Off Their Own Genitals After Sex | IFLScience

Coin Spiders Chop Off Their Own Genitals After Sex | IFLScience


There’s a bizarre phenomenon going on in the spider world: some males are severing off their own sperm sacs after sex. Why? According to new research from the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, it makes males better at playing bodyguard. The work has been published in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.

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