Spiders avoid post-mating murder
For some male spiders, love is all-consuming. Females of many spider species eat their mates after procreation. But thanks to energy stored in their front legs, the males of a species of orb-weaving spiders can catapult themselves off of a ravenous mate in a split second. They launch themselves at a speed of nearly three feet per second and spin hundreds of times. That would be like a 6-foot-tall man leaping 1,700 feet up in a single second. So, uh…what’s the strangest thing you’ve done to escape a terrible date?
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