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Wow, you're dangerous! You seek only short-term gratification and will stop at nothing to get it. Your insatiable appetite leaves your lovers losing their heads and makes you one of the most successful femme fatales around.
You're a Praying Mantis!
When a male Praying Mantis sees a female, the brain in its head sends a clear message: "This is a deadly predator that's bigger than you. Flee immediately! "Yet the male doesn't flee. Instead, it inches forward. Why? Because a second set of nerves in a different part of its body tells it that the female offers sexual fulfillment. The result is some indecision, which the female promptly resolves by devouring the male's head. Thus freed from the source of its inhibition, the male's lower half now mounts the female and copulates with reckless abandon.
Read more about the Praying Mantis
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Want to learn more about moths that wear perfume, flies that steal other flies' dates, and salamanders that drug their mates? Click on the pictures below to discover animals’ surprising love lives.
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