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Boxer mantis mating dance
Boxer Mantis is a common name given to various species of praying mantis. The name comes from the way these mantises move their oversized grasping forelimbs as they communicate with each other.
Contents
- Boxer mantis mating dance
- Purple boxer mantis cleans does crazy arm motions
- Communication
- Species
- References
Purple boxer mantis cleans does crazy arm motions
Communication
When boxer matises encounter one another, they rapidly tremble their forelimbs, displaying the patterned interior faces to each other and waving them in slow arcs. This is believed to be a way of preventing member of the same species from eating each other.
Species
References
Boxer mantis Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA