Why eating males pays off, for spiders

Wednesday, October 22, 2008 - 08:49 in Psychology & Sociology

Female spiders who eat would-be suitors produce more babies, and those babies are stronger and bigger, than spiders who stick to more mundane fare, researchers reported on Tuesday.

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