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

[isoycrazy]

I believe Rui will accept her. He already suspected she wasn't human.

 

[FlexNuts]

Rui, my guy, you're gunna need a hell of a lot of electrolites here in a minute...

 

[Xystus]

No, i am just fat

 

[banneret]

Not "trust", "thrust"

just like in rocketry...

IN THRUST WE TRUST

 

[booterror]

Someone forgot to get the news lol

 

[razorshaleh]

in next chapter, she will ask rui to impregnate her as well

 

[mekrabbat]

"I thought you were just fa--- er, eating people. Yes. Eating people is definitely what I thought."

 

[ShadowSilence]

"child".

singular

 

[GIN_8_6_]

Wait, you are pregnant?
Taya: yes, now it's your turn to get internal cum shot

 

[Firemorfox]

Its actually not that common in the wild for a female Mantis to eat the male, it happens when the female is hungry, so if shes fed well, Rui will live.

so you're saying Rui is a good cook
OR ELSE

 

[CulR]

 

[Laparoscopic]

Heh, reminds me of all the humiliating stories of fat women being mistaken as pregnant.

Q: When is it safe to assume that a woman who you don't know is pregnant?
A: When you see the baby's head crowning.

 

[chojinra]

“Of course I am, can’t you tell from the bump?”

proceeds to show her washboard abs

“Oh, wait a sec…”

the tiniest of bumps appears

”ha, there. See?”

 

[CheesiBoye]

Its actually not that common in the wild for a female Mantis to eat the male, it happens when the female is hungry, so if shes fed well, Rui will live.

Spoiler: For nerds

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4936037/
In summary, I'm not sure if its accurate to say uncommon in the wild, it may be observed if environmental factors lead a mantis species to find it more beneficial to allow the sexual cannibalism to occur because it allows more genetic material of the male mantis to be expressed in the offspring because of the positive correlation between sexual cannibalism and number of offspring produced in some mantis species.
So say maybe a forest or leaf litter is undergoing degradati9n due to climate change or edge effects, you'd naturally expect some mantis mating pairs to enact sexuap canniablism, but i wasnt able to find a study that focused on that specifically

 

[IAmInMisery4]

"...No, this bulge is just from storing excess thread."

 

[naw_T]

She's going to DESTROY Rui's pelvis so she can have a baby too. Trust.

More ike THRUST.

 

[TwinAero]

Let's hope she doesn't pull the mantis special on him.

 

[nathan67003]

HOW

 

[pachingching]

I mean... Mantises are one of the best predators... not just the smartest ones.

I saw one literally fighting a crab spider and winning. But that same guy got stuck between 2 rocks. I had to poke the rock off, which prompted him to fly into our aircon radiator, grinding himself. WTF!?

 

[wagnogi]

Spoiler: For nerds

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4936037/
In summary, I'm not sure if its accurate to say uncommon in the wild, it may be observed if environmental factors lead a mantis species to find it more beneficial to allow the sexual cannibalism to occur because it allows more genetic material of the male mantis to be expressed in the offspring because of the positive correlation between sexual cannibalism and number of offspring produced in some mantis species.
So say maybe a forest or leaf litter is undergoing degradati9n due to climate change or edge effects, you'd naturally expect some mantis mating pairs to enact sexuap canniablism, but i wasnt able to find a study that focused on that specifically

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