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Female dragonflies fake death to avoid lusting males
New Atlas ^ | April 28, 2017 | Nick Layars

Posted on 04/30/2017 4:17:22 PM PDT by Sequoyah101

Rassim Khelifa was standing by a pond in the Swiss Alps collecting insect eggs one day, when he noticed something strange. A dragonfly being hotly pursued by another suddenly took a dive and crashed to the ground, seemingly dead on the spot, before springing back to life and making a grand escape once the coast was clear. The observations that followed confirmed a previously unknown phenomenon – the insect had faked its death to give a wannabe lover the slip.

Khelifa, a biologist at the University of Zurich, had spent the summers of 2014 and 2015 gathering the eggs of dragonflies and damsel flies at ponds in the Swiss Alps, with the aim of running experiments on larval response to temperature. But his chance encounter with these would-be mates lured his curiosity in a different direction – was this kind of behavior widespread?

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TOPICS: Gardening; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: dragonflies
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To: DocRock

Why don’t they just say that they have a headache.

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21 posted on 04/30/2017 4:40:39 PM PDT by Mears (t)
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To: Sequoyah101

This is pretty extreme. Fake sleep or fake headaches won’t stop those persistent males.


22 posted on 04/30/2017 4:41:28 PM PDT by Moorings
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To: Battle Axe

Exactly.

As a child, I was terrified of dragonflies.

Now, we hang out together at the lake in the summer time.


23 posted on 04/30/2017 4:44:10 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: Sequoyah101

Dragonly lawyers are too expensive.


24 posted on 04/30/2017 4:44:51 PM PDT by Blue Devil Reaganite (Keep Right, Pass Left. Get our of the Left Lane. Now. Please.)
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To: DocRock

I once dated a girl who looked like Christy Brinkley, spent my money like Chelsea Clinton and put out like mother Theresa.

I mean, how many nights a week does a girl have to wash and set her hair?

How many weekends do they have family get togethers?

How many weeks a month does a girl have her period?


25 posted on 04/30/2017 4:48:32 PM PDT by oldvirginian (Government is at best a necessary evil, at worst a millstone around the neck of the citizenry.)
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To: Bob
With humans, that part only comes after the divorce.

NO, it's the precursor to divorce..........

26 posted on 04/30/2017 4:49:20 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: DocRock

Dragon fly headache.


27 posted on 04/30/2017 4:54:24 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (what a mess we got ourselves into)
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To: Uncle Sam 911

LOL. It’s always funny, when we hear about mating or sexual activity in other forms of life, and then apply those concepts to humans..............


28 posted on 04/30/2017 5:03:03 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Sequoyah101

Gals do that all the time. Old wife trick. LOL


29 posted on 04/30/2017 5:06:59 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Sequoyah101

The Walking (Fake?) Dead, starring Lindsay Lohan as the Walking Dead (Perhaps.) Is she really a Walking Dead Woman or just Faking to avoid her boyfriend’s lust? And what about him? He looks a little green about the gills. Find out next week...


30 posted on 04/30/2017 5:10:56 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: dforest

This brings to mind the miracle food that will reduce a woman’s sex drive by 75% instantly. Wedding cake!


31 posted on 04/30/2017 5:22:40 PM PDT by Tucker39 (In giving us The Christ, God gave us the ONE thing we desperately NEEDED; a Savior.)
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To: oldvirginian

So, now I know who was dating my GF. You poor b***ard.


32 posted on 04/30/2017 5:36:26 PM PDT by tgusa (gun control: hitting your target.)
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To: Sequoyah101
'Female dragonflies fake death to avoid lusting males'

I've had a few dates do this to me in the past.


33 posted on 04/30/2017 5:40:56 PM PDT by Viking2002 ("If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck." - John Steinbeck)
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To: Sequoyah101

Not tonight, honey, I’m dead.


34 posted on 04/30/2017 5:41:25 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Cleverly destroying leftist idols with great gusto.)
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To: Sequoyah101

feminine wiles. They all have them even the bugs.


35 posted on 04/30/2017 5:41:28 PM PDT by oldbrowser (The Agenda Media no longer has a shred of credibility.)
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To: Sequoyah101

36 posted on 04/30/2017 5:48:12 PM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: Sequoyah101

My ex did that all the time.

L


37 posted on 04/30/2017 5:49:53 PM PDT by Lurker (America burned the witch.)
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To: Sequoyah101

“Female dragonflies fake death to avoid lusting males”

seems rather extreme. couldn’t the girl dragonfly just explain to the boy dragonfly that she had a headache?


38 posted on 04/30/2017 5:51:34 PM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Tucker39

“This brings to mind the miracle food that will reduce a woman’s sex drive by 75% instantly. Wedding cake!”

ROTFLOL!

Post of the week


39 posted on 04/30/2017 5:56:13 PM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: DocRock

I thought so. LIke fresh meat for the Tiger Pen.

It has been a slow week.


40 posted on 04/30/2017 5:59:49 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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