How to Make Love to a Cannibal

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How to Make Love to a Cannibal

• Van Huynh, Odin Ifrim, Minh Nguyen and Massaer
  Gaye

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CARDINAL RULES OF CANNIBALISM

• 1-Predators
• Its never too early to start
• Never pick on someone your own size
• Ponder the small risk of remaining a virgin

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Dear Dr. Tatiana,Im a European praying mantis,
and Ive noticed I enjoy sex more if I bite my
lovers heads off first. Its because when I
decapitate them they go into the most thrilling
spasms. Somehow they seem less inhibited , more
urgent-its fabulous. Do you find this too?
I like Em Headless in
Lisbon
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European praying mantisStagmantis religiosa

• Sexual Cannibalism
• Where one mate eats another
• Only occurs 5 31
• Why?
• Large appetite
• Ejaculate faster
• Brain inhibits sex behavior

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Mantis Mating
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Grandmothers Footstep

• Male praying mantis
• Pre-mating behavior
• Mount from behind
• Escape to mate another day
• Dont make a false move or it will be your last!
• Size
• Male vs Female

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Accidents Happen

• Life in Captivity
• Third of cannibalism observed
• Means of survival
• Been observed in wild and captivity
• European praying mantis
• I ate my lover by Mistake
• No mistake
• Several spiders

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2 Points of View

• Males
• Deselected from population
• Passing on his genes
• Nutritional investment to his offspring

• Females
• Meal ticket
• Getting her eggs fertilized
• Reduce cost

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Dear Dr. Tatiana,Im an Australian redback
spider, and Im a failure. I said to my darling,
Take, eat, this is my body, and I vaulted into
her jaws. But she spat me out and told me to get
lost. Why did she spurn the ultimate sacrifice?
Wretched in the Wilderness
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Dying to have sexLatrodectus hasselti

• Prolonging intercourse increases the chances that
  his sperm will fertilize her eggs
• Satisfying her urges
• Providing nutrition to insure a large batch of
  eggs

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• 100 sure to be the date and the dinner as well?
• Then enjoy life for while,

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And let your offspring celebrate your heroism
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• 2- Victims
• Never get eaten during foreplay
• Not sure to pass on your genes?
• Escape strategies are available
• Make love on a full stomach
• Whack your partner
• Toss her in the air
• Tie her down
• Or simply do not approach her

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Make Love On A Full Stomach Natalia and Vadim
Nephila clavipes
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• toss your lover and get away Lycosa Rabida
• give her a few whacks
• Paruroctonus mesaensis

• get it done very quickly Hermissenda crassicornis
• give her something to suck on Argyrodes zonatus

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Stay away from other females

• Other females been caught eating their lovers
• More than 80 species

Emperor Scopions (Pandinus imperator )
Midges (Culicoides impunctatus )
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Being a Gentleman Who says Chivalry is Dead?

• Give her a shoulder to cry on in her time of need
• (Ovalipes catharus)

• Shell reward you with quite the prize

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Survival of the Kinkiest When Chivalry Fails

• Gag Her
• Tetragnatha extensa

• Bondage
• Xysticus cristatus

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Go Make Me a Sandwich

• Males dont eat females during sex. However,
  after sex, they usually have a craving for a
  little snack

• Nereis caudata

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So keep in mind that.

• Its never too early to start!

• Never pick on someone your own size!

The sand shark
Amoeba
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Images

• Slide 4
• Fig 1-Praying mantis mating http//www.pbase.com/e
  ricmangl/mantis
• Slide 5
• Fig 1-Praying mantis cannibalism
  http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/01/6/1_0
  16_05.html
• Slide 7
• Fig 1-Praying mantis caged
• http//www.maskedflowerimages.com/photos_mantis.ht
  ml
• Fig 2-Redback spider cannibalism
• http//www.amonline.net.au/spiders/dangerous/redba
  ck/
• Slide 8
• Fig 1-Praying mantis in bed
• http//www.unleadedjokes.com/html/Facts.html
• Paddle Crab Pic Booth, J.D., Naylor, J.R.,
  Webber, W.R. A guide to offshore crabs found in
  New Zealand Waters. pg. 14. http//www.fish.govt.n
  z/commercial/info/species/crab-id-guide.pdf
• Shark pic http//oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorati
  ons/02hawaii/logs/sep19/sep19.html for
• Nereis Pic http//www.mbl.edu/animals/images/nere
  is.virens.jpg