Traumatic Insemination - How Bugs Get Over It
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 - 14:40
in Psychology & Sociology
If bugs have their own Tori Amos, she is likely writing about sexual conflict and how reproduction exists at all given that it can be costly, especially to females. One aspect of this conflict concerns how females respond to increased mating events that are of more benefit to males than to themselves. New work discusses how some males, instead of mating conventionally, take the awkward step of piercing and penetrating their mate through her body wall. This mating behavior is known as traumatic insemination and it potentially comes at a great physiological cost to the female. read more
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