Female praying mantises are the poster child of dangerous sex, thanks to their predilection for biting off their mates» heads
immediately after copulation (watch a video)-- but many seemingly mild - mannered creatures can also be pretty violent in their sex lives.
Not exact matches
The male dies
immediately after transferring its sperm packet to the female with its palp, a segmented appendage that is used in feeding and
copulation; the insertion causes the male's heartbeat to stop almost instantly.
Do the same biases hold true for descriptions of sexual cannibalism, in which one sexual partner eats the other
immediately before, during, or
after copulation?