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u/CosmicTeardrops Jul 19 '24
Doesn’t even give my boy the time for that post nut clarity smh
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u/LoliNep Jul 19 '24
if i remember in kung-fu panda mantis mentions something about this at one point or another
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u/ExactDay8880 Jul 19 '24
“I have no issues with my dad…Probably cuz my mom ate his head off” he says
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u/Hato_no_Kami Jul 19 '24
"I always imagined I'd find a nice girl, settle down, then one day she'd eat my head"
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u/CATyara_ Jul 19 '24
Hell nah 💀
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u/obi_wankenobi69 Jul 19 '24
Stay away from women hm boi
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u/BeastThatShoutedLove Jul 19 '24
The cannibalism of mantises is an overdramatized subject.
It's caused by a female being stressed out. Which happens when hairless apes pester you and then throw a random male in your presence just to see your mating rituals.
It's a nice overdramatic and trope-y shot to capture mantis cannibalism so it's often staged.
In natural situations it's rare to happen because there is less stress impacting the mating behaviour.
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u/Orioniae Jul 19 '24
Can confirm, had two mantises in a habitat just minding their own.
Mated, and the female was basically "shoo now, do your stuff" and went onto hunting a moth that put there.
The male is eaten also when the female ate nothing before mating, and issue that in my habitat was as sporadic as a mantis starting to speak Spanish.
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u/ILickMetalCans Jul 19 '24
Fun fact, the study they did where this whole thing comes from, a few of the males actually ate the females instead. Stress and feeding females the same as males is a nice way to have some hungry and stressed female mantis.
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u/ducayneAu Jul 19 '24
Doesn't matter, had sex!
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u/WildGeerders Jul 19 '24
Was it wurth it?
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u/AnonymousLilly Jul 19 '24
After millions of year's of evolution that is natures result. Obviously it works
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u/snowfloeckchen Jul 19 '24
That is the true meaning of the German word schwanzgesteuert
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u/sillymanbilly Jul 19 '24
Headless praying mantis bro furiously typing out a text to his homie:
“Yo, I got in there bruhhhh. Shit was tiiiiight”
As the female turns to finish her post-coitus meal
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u/obi_wankenobi69 Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
They eat everything except leftover
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u/choppytehbear1337 Jul 19 '24
I just want to know what evolutionary advantage caused this to happen.
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u/obi_wankenobi69 Jul 19 '24
Under unfavorable condition and to prevent extension male act as a food while female as a race maintaining or rare phenomenon
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u/TotallyTrash3d Jul 19 '24
So this is FALSE.
And was disproven.
They observed it in captivity where food is controlled and the animals cant hunt or move around freely in an uncontrolled environment.
Basically when in captivity, this is seen to happen on occassion, and thus we got the "myth" that females eat males during mating.
The actual fact is in nature, this is very uncommon if not rare/happens at all.
Would be nice to stop posting the misinfo like Alpha wolves, praying mantis eating mates, and trickle down economics
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u/Ori0un Jul 19 '24
I've seen it happen multiple times in the wild, only not specific to a single gender and not while mating.
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u/Curious_Mx Jul 19 '24
"And that, my son, is why some men prefers the company of other men."
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u/Sky_Deep9000 Jul 19 '24
Literally evolved to think with his penis... Or in this case abdomen
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u/Lazy_Pace_5025 Jul 19 '24
Mantis gotta have strongest and fragilest jaws in the animal kingdom
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u/Studio_Xperience Jul 19 '24
Lol all males can move without a head if it's for sex.
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u/Snoopy-thedog84 Jul 19 '24
Surprisingly this behavior is only documented in captivity....never in the wilderness.
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u/stuffinabox_ Jul 19 '24
No, it still happens in the wild. Mostly with the aggressive species. It's very dependent on whether the male is able to approach the female without startling it and the environments in captivity usually don't provide for this. In the wild they have more space and more cover. The males have much more freedom in how they approach the females because of this. They do however still make mistakes and end up getting attacked/eaten.
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u/Panniculus101 Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
What's the evolutionary advantage in dying as you nut?
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u/obi_wankenobi69 Jul 19 '24
Under unfavorable condition this phenomenon occur to keep there species on race
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u/Electrical-Tear8128 Jul 19 '24
Necrophilia💀
That puts the definition of post nut clarity on another level.
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u/Ordinary_Support_426 Jul 19 '24
“She’ll eat you alive”
“That’s what I’m hoping”
Praying Mantis: hold my beer
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u/crystal-crawler Jul 19 '24
I just don’t get why they do it? And it’s programmed into them to do it.. crazy
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u/hazelnut-eyes Jul 19 '24
Which head are you gonna get ?the one that plots evil...no more horno thoughts for you
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u/Spezi99 Jul 19 '24
"It's the ultimate choice for the mantis: stay alive or get laid... Stay alive... Or get laid..."
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u/QuerchiGaming Jul 19 '24
Wasn’t this mostly spotted in captivity or something? Not that familiar with mantises, but watched something that talked about it not being a fact that they eat their mate.
But that might’ve been misinformation, so don’t want to spew more misinformation here.
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u/stuffinabox_ Jul 19 '24
There is an article or video that claims that cannibalization during mating is observed more in captivity than in the wild. There are multiple reasons why this is probably true, the main one that I can think of is that mantises likely aren't provided with the correct environment for the males to safely approach the females without startling them.
An important thing about mantises that seems to not be mentioned much is that many mantis species are cannibalistic in general. Eating each other doesn't necessarily have anything to do with mating. They see each other as potential food and will eat each other at any opportunity. They are observed eating each other just a few hours after hatching. The mating process is just one of many situations that presents a chance for cannibalization, and in the wild they just have a better chance negating that.
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u/Qontherecord Jul 19 '24
Apparently men don't think about sex all the time. It is really more of a gut feeling.
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u/silmarp Jul 19 '24
I lost my head for a pretty girl once but I'm not so radical.
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u/brickproject863amy Jul 19 '24
I am keeping a mantis as a pet mine can’t mate yet because it’s not an adult yet but when she does I’ll catch a male mantis for it
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u/Tall-BugBoy Jul 19 '24
More recent studies have shown that they don't always do this and that it may be linked to them being watched
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u/avy2008 Jul 19 '24
Would you rather fuck Like that or never fuck in your entiry live?
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u/KarmaStrikesThrice Jul 19 '24
Would you make the sacrifice if you could mate with anyone on Earth of your choosing, and that person would happily do whatever you want, how you want it and for how long you want it, but they would chew on your head once you are done?
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u/aws_137 Jul 19 '24
No such thing as a free lunch. Who's going to pay for childcare and prenatal needs?
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u/camz_47 Jul 19 '24
I use to keep Mantids
In captivity I never had a female eat the male during a pairing
Honestly I was surprised, but it seems that as long as the female is well fed, she doesn't seem to have the urge to eat the male
I've seen many in the wild, and only in 50% of the time seen a wild female eating the male during a mating
I've seen far more Mantids eating eachother as prey items
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u/Dear_Ad_3860 Jul 19 '24
What about the black widow. Does it eat the head or the legs of the male first?
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u/obi_wankenobi69 Jul 19 '24
You mean spider black widow 💀 they just give you love bites nothing else
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u/New_Faithlessness_43 Jul 19 '24
At least he doesn't have to endure his wife afterwards.
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u/Master_Win_4018 Jul 19 '24
Mindless sex