Male wolf spiders cannibalize females
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 08:02
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- While most people are familiar with the fact that many species of female spiders eat their male counterparts, new research findings published in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society show how biologists have found a species with an apparent role reversal with the male eating the female.
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