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Joe Vesey-Byrne
Nov 16, 2017

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Praying mantises are well known for being decapitated by their female lovers after sex - but this one didn't let a simple matter of losing his head get in the way of copulation.
On the YouTube channel Deep Look, a video about the praying mantis insect showed a male continuing to have sex, even after he lost his head.
Warning: The following content is NSFW if your W is populated by Praying Mantises.
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As the narrator Lauren Sommer reacts to his decapitation, she notes that his body continues to move as he fertilises the female mantis.
It's like he's on autopilot. Like a zombi mating machine.
Or what most of us call - the dream
Sommer explains that the sex continues because his body is controlled by nerves in the abdomen, so losing a head makes little difference.
She adds that in a bizarre twist, it happens to be the case that male mantises who die in this way may father more eggs than the ones who survive.
The more you know.
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