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05-01-2017, 10:06 PM
Female dragonflies pretend to be dead to avoid males, because of course they do
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Great (female) minds think alike.
Last week, it was widely reported that Rassim Khelifa (https://twitter.com/rassim_kh) from the University of Zurich in Switzerland discovered that female dragonflies sometimes fake sudden death to avoid male dragonflies.
SEE ALSO: We're one step closer to finally actually maybe having birth control for men (http://mashable.com/2017/04/04/vasagel-male-birth-control/)
"While collecting their larvae in the Swiss Alps, [Khelifa] watched a female [dragonfly] crash-dive to the ground while being pursued by a male," New Scientist (https://www.newscientist.com/article/2129185-female-dragonflies-fake-sudden-death-to-avoid-male-advances/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&cmpid=SOC%7CNSNS%7C2017-Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1493391410) reported, "The female then lay motionless on her back. Her suitor soon flew away, and the female took off once the coast was clear." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/01/female-dragonflies-play-dead-avoid-males-twitter-same-joke/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Great (female) minds think alike.
Last week, it was widely reported that Rassim Khelifa (https://twitter.com/rassim_kh) from the University of Zurich in Switzerland discovered that female dragonflies sometimes fake sudden death to avoid male dragonflies.
SEE ALSO: We're one step closer to finally actually maybe having birth control for men (http://mashable.com/2017/04/04/vasagel-male-birth-control/)
"While collecting their larvae in the Swiss Alps, [Khelifa] watched a female [dragonfly] crash-dive to the ground while being pursued by a male," New Scientist (https://www.newscientist.com/article/2129185-female-dragonflies-fake-sudden-death-to-avoid-male-advances/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&cmpid=SOC%7CNSNS%7C2017-Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1493391410) reported, "The female then lay motionless on her back. Her suitor soon flew away, and the female took off once the coast was clear." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/01/female-dragonflies-play-dead-avoid-males-twitter-same-joke/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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