neburg964
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My wife and I have gotten into keeping mantises as pets and really love them. Our current "stable" consists of a very large Chinese female, a European female and male, and a Carolina female.
All of them exhibit interesting behavior and we were wondering what sorts of behaviors your mantises exhibit.
Specifically:
Two of our mantises will actually fly to us (one of them almost does it on command);
They enjoy drinking water, chicken broth, etc, from a spoon; (one of them ate orange sherbert from a spoon).
The European male will sit on your finger, put his head down so he looks like he's in trouble, lower his antennae all the way down and then grab on to you for dear life. But he doesn't do anything else that would resemble "mating" behavior.
They all seem to be fascinated with cameras and electronics, and will readily approach you if you are holding such a device.
Occasionally, they like to lick the salt from our skin. Very interesting sensation...
We had one Chinese female that was captivated by computer video games, and she would occasionally try to grab objects off of the monitor.
Another Chinese female was mesmerized by the second hand of my watch.
They all like to play in a very gentle water stream from the faucet.
All of this has convinced us that mantises are not just another insect, but are very high-functioning creatures. And we will always keep them in our home.
All of them exhibit interesting behavior and we were wondering what sorts of behaviors your mantises exhibit.
Specifically:
Two of our mantises will actually fly to us (one of them almost does it on command);
They enjoy drinking water, chicken broth, etc, from a spoon; (one of them ate orange sherbert from a spoon).
The European male will sit on your finger, put his head down so he looks like he's in trouble, lower his antennae all the way down and then grab on to you for dear life. But he doesn't do anything else that would resemble "mating" behavior.
They all seem to be fascinated with cameras and electronics, and will readily approach you if you are holding such a device.
Occasionally, they like to lick the salt from our skin. Very interesting sensation...
We had one Chinese female that was captivated by computer video games, and she would occasionally try to grab objects off of the monitor.
Another Chinese female was mesmerized by the second hand of my watch.
They all like to play in a very gentle water stream from the faucet.
All of this has convinced us that mantises are not just another insect, but are very high-functioning creatures. And we will always keep them in our home.
