Clever Spider Mating Strategy.



The male nursery spider faces a dilemma - the female spider is much bigger and likes to eat male suitors while mating.

So, it develops a clever strategy: it brings a dead insect to distract the female spider, then it plays dead. Then when the feame is busy munching on the gift, it revives, creeps under her and begins mating.

Link(via Aberrant News)

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Posted on October 6, 2005 at 10:50 am by Alex
Category: Animal



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