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Some males are 'dying' to have sex…literally! In praying mantises, soon after mating or during mating, the female starts devouring its partner, head first! Many spider males are in the same peril, so, in order not to fall victims to their sweeties, they deliver a large fly to their partners, which will keep... |
5 April 2008
05:10 GMT |
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Your parents might urge you to get a job if you've reached 30 and you're still living with them, but in animals, this can be much tougher: dad will eat his offspring. A new research published in the journal "Biology Letters" has attempted to explain some of the reasons why parents might cannibalize their ow... |
7 February 2008
06:54 GMT |
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The cannibal doctor Hannibal Lecter, the infamous character from "The Silence of the Lambs" scandalized the world, but he revealed the human cruelty at its highest, which was believed to hide under the cover of civilization. But after the creepy case of the Viennese cannibal from past August, when police found Robert... |
11 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Vanuatu (formerly called New Hebrides before gaining independence in 1980) is located in southwestern Pacific, half way between Australia and Fiji. The archipelago is made of 80 islands and has a "Y" shape. The islands appeared following the crash of tectonic plates, forming huge mountains that are mainly covered by ... |
12 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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It is a reproductive paradox: giving birth to offspring just to eat them. But the behavior is widespread in many groups of animals, from bank voles and hedgehogs to house finches, wolf spiders and a lot of fish species. The paradox is increased by the fact that all these species are also very good parents for the res... |
15 November 2007
03:07 GMT |
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After finding Livingstone in 1871, Henry Morton Stanley continued his exploration of the Congo basin and tried to convince the British government to turn Congo into a British colony. This, however, proved not interested, and Belgian king was eventually faster. Leopold II turned the river's banks into a huge grav... |
15 September 2007
13:36 GMT |
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Sometimes, to like your neighbors can have a very creepy meaning. For instance, a cannibal hit his neighbor with something heavy, cut him from the neck to the genitalia and started the feast. The body of the victim was found in a pool of blood and the bowels were scattered through the room. On a plate, a piece of coo... |
31 August 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Like homosexuality, cannibalism can look odd by human standards, but in fact it's widespread in the animal kingdom, and also amongst many human populations in the past, and survived till the XX th century in some areas of Central Africa, South America, New Guinea and Vanuatu. Because many infections pass from vi... |
24 March 2007
06:53 GMT |
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