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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: 272896" data-attributes="member: 7606"><p>Sorry, it was only partially directed towards you. The post was meant to be a story which I personally found pretty touching, and maybe in the process of telling it I did tell it a little too dramatically. But I was mainly directing my comments towards the thought that the entire idea is ridiculous. Many years ago, the thought that the earth was round was ridiculous, and oh hey.. now everyone would think a "flat" earth was ridiculous. I do understand what you're saying, and I agree with you that research on mantis behavior in general is not very well studied/known. You should just have some faith in me that I didn't jump to the conclusion on this one case, from the one picture because prior to this female, my females were kept in 20g tanks with plenty of space to move away if they wanted to. Another question I'm kind of curious on is whether or not D. lobata females can recognize the ootheca they laid or if they would guard another female's ootheca if you swapped them.</p><p></p><p>Insects are insects to me, I enjoy them but don't get me wrong I will never think that they feel the way humans do. So this observation came from consistently seeing the same behavior with this species and I would like to believe that it is non-biased. Just for the sake of it, I did leave the female in with one of her ootheca until it hatched. I thought it was rather strange one day when I noticed her not guarding it anymore and it turns out that the little ones hatched. She did know they were there, she would look at the them the way a mantis looks as if she saw prey, but she never struck. Yes it's possible that she only moved because she was getting annoyed by all the little guys running around, but at the same time I saw little guys run all over her and the only time she would flick them off was when they got on her head/raptorials.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aryia, post: 272896, member: 7606"] Sorry, it was only partially directed towards you. The post was meant to be a story which I personally found pretty touching, and maybe in the process of telling it I did tell it a little too dramatically. But I was mainly directing my comments towards the thought that the entire idea is ridiculous. Many years ago, the thought that the earth was round was ridiculous, and oh hey.. now everyone would think a "flat" earth was ridiculous. I do understand what you're saying, and I agree with you that research on mantis behavior in general is not very well studied/known. You should just have some faith in me that I didn't jump to the conclusion on this one case, from the one picture because prior to this female, my females were kept in 20g tanks with plenty of space to move away if they wanted to. Another question I'm kind of curious on is whether or not D. lobata females can recognize the ootheca they laid or if they would guard another female's ootheca if you swapped them. Insects are insects to me, I enjoy them but don't get me wrong I will never think that they feel the way humans do. So this observation came from consistently seeing the same behavior with this species and I would like to believe that it is non-biased. Just for the sake of it, I did leave the female in with one of her ootheca until it hatched. I thought it was rather strange one day when I noticed her not guarding it anymore and it turns out that the little ones hatched. She did know they were there, she would look at the them the way a mantis looks as if she saw prey, but she never struck. Yes it's possible that she only moved because she was getting annoyed by all the little guys running around, but at the same time I saw little guys run all over her and the only time she would flick them off was when they got on her head/raptorials. [/QUOTE]
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