There’s just something intrinsically cool about a praying mantis.
Maybe it’s their #namaste pose, maybe it’s those big goggle eyes, or maybe it’s the fact that the females sometimes eat the males after doing the dirty.
Believe it or not we’ve explained why that is HERE, but it’s another snack supply that we’re going to focus on below.
Would you believe that praying mantises sometimes eat birds? It’s true – Gizmodo with proof:
New research published in The Wilson Journal of Ornithology shows that small birds often fall victim to praying mantises, and that this behavior [sic] exists among many different mantis species around the world…
Their primary prey consists of bugs and spiders, but they’ve also been observed to eat small vertebrates such as frogs, lizards, salamanders, and snakes. More infrequently, praying mantises have also been seen munching on the odd bird, but it wasn’t known if these were isolated incidents, or a hunting behavior specific to a select group of praying mantises.
The new study…now shows that this bird-eating behavior exists worldwide among praying mantises and that it’s definitely a thing that praying mantises do.
Of course someone has managed to capture a hunt going down – this footage is old, with the strike occuring around the 35-second mark:
These are savage times we live in. Nothing is sacred and no one is safe.
Not a fan of birds? You’re cooked in the head, but how about a mouse hunt?
Not sure we needed the pan flute soundtrack, but unlike the mouse we will live.
Last one – mantis versus snake:
It’s eat or be eaten out there my friends, and I say more power to the praying mantis.
[source:gizmodo]
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