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D. lobata females and their will to protect their young.
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<blockquote data-quote="Aryia" data-source="post: 272892" data-attributes="member: 7606"><p>[MEDIA=youtube]Cd28vCjQRGc[/MEDIA]Here's a short clip of a D. lobata female, though in my experience they do still catch prey when they are guarding, this particular one may have decided to flick it away simply because the locust got too close to the ootheca. It's an observation, I know it's not tested. Notice that she's crouched over the ootheca before the locust is even put on the branch. Damian never prodded her in the video, but when I did, my females would just hug their ootheca even tighter instead of walking away like usual.</p><p></p><p>And I know skepticism is good, I just don't like having every single observation written off to anthropomorphism. The idea that bugs don't just pop out offspring and leave them does sound super ridiculous, but sometimes you need to be open-minded to discover new things as opposed to implying causation (small container/no room) to the action. The scientific method of approaching this would be to write up a thesis and test it, as opposed to just saying "just because it hasn't been scientifically proven before means it's doubtful that it ever will". That being said it might really be a nice study for someone who can do it, I wish I could do it from home but the lack of space and chances that it will just get written off as a "biased hobbyist" are quite unappealing imo.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aryia, post: 272892, member: 7606"] [MEDIA=youtube]Cd28vCjQRGc[/MEDIA]Here's a short clip of a D. lobata female, though in my experience they do still catch prey when they are guarding, this particular one may have decided to flick it away simply because the locust got too close to the ootheca. It's an observation, I know it's not tested. Notice that she's crouched over the ootheca before the locust is even put on the branch. Damian never prodded her in the video, but when I did, my females would just hug their ootheca even tighter instead of walking away like usual. And I know skepticism is good, I just don't like having every single observation written off to anthropomorphism. The idea that bugs don't just pop out offspring and leave them does sound super ridiculous, but sometimes you need to be open-minded to discover new things as opposed to implying causation (small container/no room) to the action. The scientific method of approaching this would be to write up a thesis and test it, as opposed to just saying "just because it hasn't been scientifically proven before means it's doubtful that it ever will". That being said it might really be a nice study for someone who can do it, I wish I could do it from home but the lack of space and chances that it will just get written off as a "biased hobbyist" are quite unappealing imo. [/QUOTE]
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