Monday, 5 January 2015

Being a couch potato could have led to marital bliss in mantis shrimps

Date:
January 4, 2015

Source:
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB)

Summary:
Being monogamous is an advantage for mantis shrimp, helping them to avoid predators, new research shows. A study shows that social monogamy, where one lives and shares resources with a single partner for an extended period of time, is rare in nature. So why did it evolve at all?


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