april 25 (BuyLinkShop) -- a species of male spiders is ditching its cannibalistic female counterparts behind sex, to abandon essence dined on active.
the orb-weaving male spiders advantage their two front legs to embark themselves to safety as beforehand as they've mated, according to elaboration published monday in exoteric biology.
the commence agent of the application wrote he noticed the little males were bouncing abroad behind mating with the larger females, using energy stored in their front leg joints.
"imagine a mankind with a acme of 1.8 meters catapulting himself 530 meters in single second. that's what these male spiders do," said shichang zhang, a behavioral ecologist at china's hubei university. that equates to someone equitable below 6 feet launching themselves one-third of a mile.
male orb-weaving philoponella prominens spiders abandon essence eaten by mates by catapulting away
read more in @currentbiology: https: //t.co/cjtp9qkedn#hubeiuniversity shichang zhang, @nusingapore daiqin li pic.twitter.com/ovgfbh7jh7— cell compel (@cellpressnews) april 25, 2022