Sexual Cannibalism

My exams is in 2 days but i can't resist blogging. But i have to give credits to my friend for informing me to watch a documentary on animals on how they mate. I only managed to watch it 10 mins before the show ended. It was an interesting funny animal documentary. It explains how some animals mate and some are quite funny and interesting. But watching this documentary made me want to blog about it.

SEXUAL CANNIBALISM --> i think that's my favourite word now :P. I found that phrase when i was googling for pictures of the Australian Redback Spider which lead me to a National Geography website and an article on the spider.


CALL ME FAT AND I'LL EAT YOU AFTER YOU ARE DONE SCREWING WITH ME!!!


Ladies and gentleman, above is a picture of the Australian Redback spider. As you can see, there's a big fat black spider and a small tiny weeny one. The big one is the female and the small one is the male. Do you know that even the female snake is much bigger than the male snake?

Sexual cannibalism was used to described the mating between the Australian Redback spiders. Why?

The male encourages the female's cannibalistic tendencies, somersaulting over her mouth parts as he transfers sperm into her,

I copy and paste that from an online article. So while the male spider transfer his sperm into the female, the female will be eating his abdomen. Cool 8)...

Now, apply this concept to HUMANS. Some men these days are pretty useless. They get the women pregnant and then dumped her when he found out that she's pregnant and let her go through her pregnancy alone. Might as well you just kill the man after he got you knocked up. Of course you wouldn't eat his flesh. Maybe kill him and take his money. Actually, in real life, there are some women who go around marrying rich men to get their money and later kill them and make it look like an accident so they will inherit the men's wealth. These kind of women are nicknamed "black widows".

It's not just the Australian Redback spider that practices sexual cannibalism. Even the PRAYING MANTIS does the same thing. Below is the PERFEEECT PICTURE i found of the prying mantis mating cycle. I added the words though :k.





After mating, the female will eat the male praying mantis. If you look at no 3, she will just leave out the limbs. Heheheheh...

It's not that the female is a selfish and ungrateful partner, but she EATS THE MALE to get NUTRITION for her pregnancy. It's not like the male will be sitting around to look after the offsprings. So better just eat him. There's no such thing as free sex.

The documentary never showed the mating of praying mantis. I knew about the praying mantis's sexual cannibalism from another animal documentary.

But another animal which was pointed out by the documentary is a rodent that look like a mouse but is not a mouse. According to the documentary, this male rodent will reach a point where he will be sooooooo SEXUALLY ACTIVE that he will mate NON STOP with different females for 3 WEEKS WITHOUT EATING and in the end DIE of EXHAUSTION and STARVATION.

Hmmm... the things animal do for sex...