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Here's Why These Male Spiders Sacrifice Themselves by Somersaulting Into Females' Fangs While Mating smithsonianmag.com

Some male spiders finish mating by somersaulting directly into the female's fangs, and it turns out this elaborate suicide takes surprisingly little genetic machinery to encode. The finding suggests baroque animal behaviors can hang on very few switches.

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