{"id":2274,"date":"2023-03-31T16:54:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T16:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=2274"},"modified":"2023-03-31T16:54:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T16:54:53","slug":"some-female-spiders-pretend-to-be-dead-so-potential-male-sexual-partners-wont-fear-being-eaten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=2274","title":{"rendered":"Some female spiders pretend to be dead so potential male sexual partners won&#8217;t fear being eaten"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-119.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-2275\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-119.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-119.png 800w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-119-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-119-770x510.png 770w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-119-293x194.png 293w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-119-120x80.png 120w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-119-240x160.png 240w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-119-390x258.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Credit: Pixabay\/CC0 Public Domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A team of bio-scientists affiliated with several institutions in China, working with a colleague from Australia, has found that the females of some species of funnel spiders play dead to attract male sexual partners. In their study, reported in the journal&nbsp;<em>Current Zoology<\/em>, the group collected several specimens of Aterigena aculeata and tested their behavior in the lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Funnel-weaving spiders are spiders that spin webs in the shape of a funnel. They are found in many places around the world, but only those species living in Australia are considered dangerous\u2014without treatment their venom can cause\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/severe+pain\/\">severe pain<\/a>\u00a0and even\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/death\/\">death<\/a>. Many species of funnel-weaving spiders are known to engage in sexual cannibalism, in which the female kills and eats the male after coitus. This\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/behavior\/\">behavior<\/a>\u00a0has led to mating problems for some species, resulting in sexual catalepsy\u2014in which one of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/sexual+partners\/\">sexual partners<\/a>\u00a0plays dead during some or all of the mating process. To learn more about this behavior in A. aculeata, the research team collected several samples and carefully tested them in their lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-03-female-spiders-dead-potential-male.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-03-female-spiders-dead-potential-male.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of bio-scientists affiliated with several institutions in China, working with a colleague from Australia, has found that the females of some species of funnel spiders play dead to attract male sexual partners. In their study, reported in the journal&nbsp;Current Zoology, the group collected several specimens of Aterigena aculeata and tested their behavior in the lab. Funnel-weaving spiders are spiders that spin webs in the shape of a funnel. They are found in many places around the world, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2276,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274\/revisions\/2276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}