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#44: Praying Mantises Don’t Eat their Mates… Too Often

Everyone knows that female praying mantis eat their mates after coitus to gain enough energy to grow their babies. Oddly, though, they don’t tend to do this in the wild. In fact, males and females are equal in their intent to consume each other after mating, and it’s a rare phenomenon.

We may never know why it happens, but I’m sure we can all have a good laugh thinking about the possibilities. There are a massive amount of adult jokes just waiting to happen, and they’re way better than the good old hungry mama or femme fatale jokes we’ve been using for years!