{"id":67,"date":"2019-12-05T15:04:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T20:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/?p=67"},"modified":"2019-12-31T15:28:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T20:28:42","slug":"spider-cannibalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/spider-cannibalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexually Cannibalistic Spiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">On this episode of the Language of Love, we will be discussing the Pisaura mirabilis and other spiders and the risks that males face when approaching a girl.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to Dr. S&oslash;ren Toft for being a guest voice!<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-67-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2019\/12\/My-Song-1.m4a?_=1\"><\/source><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2019\/12\/My-Song-1.m4a\">https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2019\/12\/My-Song-1.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n<div class=\"h5p-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"h5p-iframe-9\" class=\"h5p-iframe\" data-content-id=\"9\" style=\"height:1px\" src=\"about:blank\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"Spider Cannibalism\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2>Further Reading<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/doi\/full\/10.1098\/rsbl.2015.1082\">The shield effect: nuptial gifts protect males against pre-copulatory sexual cannibalism<\/a> (<em>Biology Letters<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ib.berkeley.edu\/courses\/ib160\/past_papers\/suttle.html\">The Evolution of Sexual Cannibalism<\/a> (<em>UC Berkeley<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this episode of the Language of Love, we will be discussing the Pisaura mirabilis and other spiders and the risks that males face when approaching a girl. Special thanks to Dr. S\u00f8ren Toft for being a guest voice! Further Reading The shield effect: nuptial gifts protect males against pre-copulatory sexual cannibalism (Biology Letters) The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3798,"featured_media":82,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-season-1"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2019\/12\/max-kleinen-DMVvky6xHeE-unsplash.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3798"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}