This video shows male spiders jumping like hell to avoid being eaten after sex. Read more about this fling: 📷: Shichang Zhang
After a bit of hanky panky with a female, male spiders will abruptly beat a retreat, hurling themselves away from their partner faster than most cameras can record. In the end, though, they usually come crawling back for more.What sounds like a cruel on-again, off-again romance is actually the male's way of saving its neck… quite literally.doesn't split immediately after fornicating with a female, he risks becoming a post-sex snack.
All of these unfortunate creatures met the same cut-throat fate. They were captured, killed, and consumed by the female. "These results clearly indicate that the catapulting behavior is an obligatory component of the male mating repertoire and a strategy to avoid the females' attempts at post-mating sexual cannibalism," the authorsFilming the spiders with high-resolution, high-speed cameras, researchers have figured out how males of this species escape the clutches of their sex partners.
Researchers say the hydraulic pressure from fluid build-up in the forelimbs is what ultimately allows the male to jump away with such incredible speed., which tend to extend their fourth pair of legs to soar through the air. The joint among orb-weaving spiders, however, lacks extensor muscles in its forelimbs.
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