From: "Jerald Hellemeyer" <bippie-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: baby food
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 16:27:22 CST




>Female Praying Mantis eat their mates while still copulating. 

A theory popular among entomologists is that the male mantis mounts the 
female but does not actually copulate until after the female has eaten 
the males head.  According to the theory, there is a chemical in the 
males brain that inhibits it sexually and he is unable to procreate 
until his head is removed.  Nature sucks sometimes.  And don't get me 
started about the truly heinous sex life of the male bee.

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