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Female's courtship threshold allows intruding males to mate with reduced effort

10.1098/rspb.2009.1554
J Stoltz, M Andrade

• Title:

  So You Think You Can Dance: Spider Edition | Discoblog

  Date:

  02 Nov 2009

  Blog:

  Cosmic Variance

  Blog entry:

  If you thought going to the club was bad, imagine having to dance in front of potential mates for over an hour and a half, lest they will eat you. Male Australian redback spiders, members of the black widow family, pay the ultimate price if their mating dance doesn’t impress. Here’s how it works,...

• Title:

  So You Think You Can Dance: Spider Edition | Discoblog

  Date:

  03 Nov 2009

  Blog:

  The Loom

  Blog entry:

  If you thought going to the club was bad, imagine having to dance in front of potential mates for over an hour and a half, lest they will eat you. Male Australian redback spiders, members of the black widow family, pay the ultimate price if their mating dance doesn’t impress. Here’s how it works,...