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Courtship
Catherine Scott is a graduate student working toward her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto. She’s studying the courtship behaviour of black widow spiders. That means that her experiments often involve waiting for spiders to have sex.
When they’re courting, male Carola’s Parotia put on one hell of a show. Whenever this bird-of-paradise from New Guinea gets females to visit his painstakingly-prepared display court, he runs through six specific dance moves, each of which has to be performed well, and in the right order, to convince a…
You probably already know male black widow spiders are risking their lives when they go courting — but it’s actually worse than that. They face tough competition for the “honour” of mating. Once a virgin black widow female puts up a pheromone-laden mating web, males run in from all around…
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