Male Spiders Split After Sex to Avoid Becoming Dinner - Nerdist

Male spiders are sometimes eaten by the females after mating; this species adapted to leap away so quickly that regular cameras can't track them.

To avoid becoming a post-coital snack, male spiders leap away from the female. Insert obligatory one night stand or walk of shame joke here. Scientists recorded 155 instances of normal orb-weaving sp… [+1726 chars]

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