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You know, and everybody know how to involve a little bit of trickery to trick someone.
And how people always wow and ahh over magicians about their wonderful illusions (which I am actually..I just love magic as well) , and some people who use very well-hidden trickery to trick others?
But when I receive a newsletter which I subscribe to NOVA, and I read the latest one, it seems that insects/animals are more cunning!
There’s one small article where the giant cuttlefish which can be found in off the coast of Australia, they are able to change their colours during mating. Small males who are unfit for winning matches with stronger males rivals will disguise themselves as females to avoid being detected by males and discretely mate with the female (genuine).
I dunno..but it seems that I am really fascinated by cuttlefish! They are brainy lots of creatures.
They can camouflage, blending well in the surrounding or even mimic as an animal. And now, in mating, the smaller males can cross dress as females by hiding their fourth arm (which disguise the fact that they are males) and make their fourth arm look like egg laying posture. An extremely Very good strategy. !
However, researchers were wondering why those big males that been “fooled” have not yet develop counter strategy to detect those cross-dressing males.
I have just watch the preview of giant cuttlefish and how they actually film those king of camouflage changing colour, becoming invisible, etc.
The video is really good. You can watch here: LINK
There are so many more cases of males mimicking females in the animal world.
Like the california Tiger salamander who can dance like females to fool their rivals and then destroys his rival’s genetic material.
Bed bug
I just found out that the itchy welts on us victim caused by bed bugs is the result of them practising “traumatic copulation”.
can you imagine that?
So in the case of mating with females, the males will puncture the abdomens of females with their saberlike penis. And the females benefit OKAY!!
Instead of getting itch welts, they get nutrients from sperm as well as using the sperm to fertilise the eggs.
Some bedbugs like A.constrictus, able to mimick as females to attract males to mate with them and feed off the sperm as well as reducing the reproductive capacity of their competitors.
Common Scorpionfly
You can view the rest of the articles here: Mating Trickery
Don’t worry, it is not a long wordy article. The link I gave you, it is actually an interactive version, with loads of pictures and short descriptions.
Enjoy while I’m off to read an interactive article on the anatomy of cuttlefish!
P.S: Do you know that cuttlefish is colour blind?
But they have two of the most highly developed eyes in the animal kingdom!
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