IT’S not often we think of spiders as superior to humans, but one particular species puts us males to shame.
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A new study entitled ‘spider behaviours include oral sexual encounters’ discovered the species has a “rich sexual repertoire” and is keen to engage in marathon cunnilingus sessions with its female counterparts.
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At first, this may not seem like strangest thing in the world, however scientists were quick to point out oral sex is an infrequent occurrence in the animal kingdom.
While mammals such as lemurs, lions, dolphins and bats are known to partake in such pleasures, the behaviour in spiders is exceedingly rare — only seen in widows.
Lead researcher Matjaz Gregoric said a two week study of the spiders discovered that the male species — who are 14 times lighter and 2.3 times smaller than the females — routinely took oral sex past foreplay.
“Oral sexual contact seems to be an obligate sexual behaviour in this species as all males did it before, in between, and after copulation, even up to 100 times,” he said in a statement.
Despite acting selflessly towards their lady lovers, things aren’t great for the lads with researchers observing they often fall prey to “sexual cannibalism” from the females.
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