Deadly spider requires long courtship — or else

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 18:49 in Biology & Nature

Females of the Australian redback spider, a close relative to the black widow, demand 100 minutes of courting or else they usually cannibalize their male suitors, research finds.

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