• Question: are some animals cannibals?

    Asked by cheerdancemaia to Michelle on 25 Jun 2013.
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      Michelle Taylor answered on 25 Jun 2013:


      Yes, particularly spiders where females tend to eat the male soon after mating. Praying mantis females also eat their mates during mating. We think that the male sacrifices himself to provide the female with extra nutrition that is needed to produce all the new offspring.

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