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4: No Such Thing As The Mountains of Kong

No Such Thing As A Fish

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Male Spiders Are More Likely to Approach a Female for Sex Than Humans

Male pennsylvania grass spiders are much more likely to approach a female for sex if she has recently killed and eaten another male. The red buck ask for it, don't they? Red back male spiders sort of beg to be eaten. Spiders have specialized jaws which hold open the jaws of females ceering copulation because they basically carry round sticks with which they can leaver open her mouth. Some males will only mate, or they prefer to mate, with a spider who is currently eating another mas as shos busys during dinner.

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