My New Girlfriend Is Not Human? - Vol. 3 Ch. 154 - Shocking news?

[UncleKaos]

Well she is not the sharpest knife in the drawer is she?

 

[MrTurtleMan]

She just thought Taya was eating good (I have to assume she mentioned it before but she didn't actually say it here as the phrasing could easily refer to a hypothetical future child)

 

[Baddtraxx]

"youre pregnant?"
"no the belly is just for show"

 

[Kaito57]

Now that she knows monsters and humans can make babies, she's not gonna let Rui sleep

 

[CheesiBoye]

I don't know what you classify as uncommon, but at least most articles i have found, refers to the same "less than 30% in the wild" estimate, though I haven't been able to find the specific study / studies, so this is to be taken with a grain of salt.

Spoiler: to expand on that

The idea view that praying mantises eat their mate, stems form the fact that in lab studies the female most of the time ate their mate.
Though after observing them in nature the amount of time the female ate their partner was significantly smaller than what was observed in the lab, leading to the "less than 30% of the time" estimate.
I have also found multiple articles stating there's a higher chance of smaller & weaker males being eaten.
And it is theorised in a couple articles that the the mantis' brain has inhibitors, so if the head is removed, the body will continue mating for longer, due to the brain not being there trying to keep the animal alive.
I couldn't be bothered after the 5th scientific paper

I'm making a conjecture based on the effect on climate change and the period when the study I saw showing the <30% occurence. That if we assume that climate change is lowering the general fitness and causing more praying mantises to expressing a smaller/weaker phenotype then caanibalism is likely occuring more often than what was previously thought to be consensus

Spoiler: More nerd info

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4936037/
This article correlates the fitness to occurence of sexual cannibalism, which i would probably use if i was trying to make a study on the occurence being higher due to climate change, but hey i think im gonna stop doing intern work for free, my interest is mild at best here man, sincerely thanks for humoring me

 

[Arghit]

The Emperor didn't protect this time...

 

[SilverTitania]

Lady you need a pair of glasses