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Across the eastern United States, a gruesome ritual is in full swing. The praying mantis and its relative, the Chinesemantis, are in their courtship season. A male mantis approaches a female, flapping his wings and swaying his abdomen. Leapingon her back, he begins to mate. And quite often, she tears off his head. The female mantis devours the head of the still-mating male and then moves on to the rest of his body. If you put a pairtogether and come back later, youll just find the wings of the male and no other evidence he was ever there. Biologists have debated how this behavior has evolved in these species. Some have suggested that sexual cannibalism is just aresult of a voracious female appetite. But experiments have also suggested that it is a strategy that females use to selectthe best fathers for their offspring. Other scientists have found evidence that males may have had a role in the evolution of cannibalism. By surrenderingthemselves to their mates, males increase their reproductive success.
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