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... is what we need. the world is going to shit and everyone is too busy with themselves to care sometimes it makes me sad :(( |
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haha hippies |
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yeah : ) <3 |
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awwww you might be a wanker but i think i love you <3 |
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love = great band |
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the best people are wankers. |
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Brockmann describes a curious behavior pattern called 'holding'. This is seen alternating with copulation during the final minutes before the female lays her egg. In addition to brief copulations throughout the provisioning phase of the nest, the final egg-laying and sealing up of the nest is heralded by a prolonged bout of repeated copulations, which lasts many minutes. The female goes head first into the vertical, organ pipe-shaped mud nest, and pushes her head up into the cluster of paralysed spiders lodged in the top of the nest. Her abdomen is facing the entrance at the bottom of the nest, and in this position the male copulates with her. The female then turns round so that she is head downwards facing out of the nest, and probes the spiders with the tip of her abdomen, as if about to lay an egg. The male meanwhile 'holds' her head in his forelegs for about half a minute, grabs her antennae and pulls her downwards away from the spiders. She then turns around and they copulate again. She again turns to probe the spiders with her abdomen, the male again holds her head and drags her down. The whole cycle repeats some half dozen times. Finally, after one especially long bout of head-holding, the female lays her egg. Once the egg is laid, its sex is determined. We have already considered the hypothetical possibility of worker ants manipulating their mother's nervous system, forcing her to change her fertilizing decision in their genetic interest. Brockmann's suggestion is that male T. Politum might attempt similar subversion, and that the head-holding and dragging behavior may be a manifestation of their manipulation technique. When the male seizes the female's antennae and drags her away from the spiders which she is probing with her abdomen, is he forcing a postponement of egg-laying as a means of increasing the chance of the egg's being fertilized in the oviduct? If that's not love, I don't know what is. |
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faucet eggy slime |
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We need preying mantis love is what we need. If I was a mantis I would be the female and I would prey to the god of Nambootica and I would have cyborg mandibles and both an endo and indo skeleton and endo smoke whith Fluff sheepy sheep of the notorious BIG nwa. That reminds me, I was using "wish" or some other spell on an enemy thinking I was attacking it. Turns out I was healing it. |
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I love pizza |
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...baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me. no more what is love? ...baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me. no more |
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where else could you read a post about Cyborg mandibles on a preying mantis, Notorius BIG, and accidentally healing an enemy witha spell that you thought would inflict damage? |
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Perhaps in Hitler's diary. |
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I <3 Hitler. |
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Hate! yay |
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