It's not because he doesn't love you...

Feb 23, 2010 15:20

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8524000/8524558.stm

It's just because you two moved to a bigger pond.

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kaolinfire February 24 2010, 00:10:50 UTC
institutionalized cannibalism. AWESOME. =)

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hypothermya February 24 2010, 00:42:14 UTC
Are you reading the article about the spiders? (I linked to one on frogs...) If so, yeah, it's definitely awesome! And pretty interesting that the males aren't filling the equivalent of that late-night snack/munchies craving.

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kaolinfire February 24 2010, 00:44:08 UTC
Nope, the one on frogs =)

When the tadpoles become hungry, the male calls to his female partner who arrives to lay a non-fertile egg in each pool, which the tadpole eats as food.

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hypothermya February 24 2010, 00:51:56 UTC
Hahah! I remember reading that, but for whatever reason it didn't strike me as canabalistic. Maybe because the egg isn't fertile.

But I can just imagine:

"How are you going to grow up to be a healthy frog if you don't eat your siblings?"

"But Moooooom -- I dun wanna eat Becca!"

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skerrington February 24 2010, 18:26:02 UTC
I just saw similar results in a documentary on birds, "Attenborough in Paradise."

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z1815 February 25 2010, 20:37:44 UTC
*hug*
That's an interesting article, and your comment makes me smile:) Works rather appropriatly for Joe and I moving to CA...

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