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Female dragonflies fake sudden death to avoid male advances - Leigha - Mar 16, 2019

#metoo even exists in the insect world. 

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2129185-female-dragonflies-fake-sudden-death-to-avoid-male-advances/


RE: Female dragonflies fake sudden death to avoid male advances - C C - Mar 16, 2019

Nice that the tactic still works in the dragonfly world, or bugs yet have a degree of sanity. Thanks to the pseudonecrophilia trend, it's instead what some men would want from a potential date in the "progressively kinky" human world these days.

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RE: Female dragonflies fake sudden death to avoid male advances - Zinjanthropos - Mar 16, 2019

I guess ‘I have a headache’ just doesn’t cut it.


RE: Female dragonflies fake sudden death to avoid male advances - Leigha - Mar 16, 2019

(Mar 16, 2019 06:21 AM)C C Wrote: Nice that the tactic still works in the dragonfly world, or bugs yet have a degree of sanity. Thanks to the pseudonecrophilia trend, it's instead what some men would want from a potential date in the "progressively kinky" human world these days.

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Good points.

It's interesting that other female species sometimes go through sexual angst when dealing with the males of their kind. I've always assumed mating was a seasonal thing, void of anything other than a mechanical type of ''transaction.''