Today a mantis flew into my desk, amused and curious i took a closer look. It stabbed me in the eye.
Just kidding but i always imagine that is what a mantis would do if given the chance. Well i’m no an expert in insectology or whatever it is but damn the mantis species sure looks badass ! And this is what this post is really about.
Enter the Mantis
The name mantis originated from the belief that any brave or bold (badass) action that a man makes is directly proportional to the size of his balls, therefore his testis is the determining factor in how much of a badass he is at any given time. Thus a typical male’s nut has come to represent badass.
“That man has big balls alright !”
“Think your balls are big enough to handle this ?”
“You must really have some balls to do that !”
Early civilisation being as wise as they were already knew this and recognizing how badass the mantis were gave them the name ‘mantis’, a subtle reference to a man’s testis – Mantis.
The many forms of the mantis
Now a mantis comes in all kind of forms.
This kind is probably the most recognizable kind, standard folded forearms, thin body thin legs, long body and weird head. Pretty standard stuff nothing special really.
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But what about this ?
D=
ARGH WHAT THE FUCKKJK
FUCKKKKKKKKKK GOD FUCK FUCK FUCK
LOL ‘kay how cute =3
oh GOD NOO NO FUCK BITCH NO
You see thats the thing with those mantis is that, they are highly predatorial and like to ambush their prey. Some species specialize in running after their prey like a bull and take them down, this variety lack the ability to climb plants and such though. A classical example of a mantis deadliness – One moment you are landing on a flower’s petal ready to suck some sweet nectar out for breakfirst and then you can’t, because you were decapitated one second ago. Generally the mantis strikes at such a quicker-the-light-speed-or-not speed by storing energy in the forearms and striking like a wind up racing car.
Fact: Awed by the deadly moves of a mantis, the ancient chinese has adopted the mantis into their kungfuology because they are so awesome, this is not surprising.
Pfft you don’t see a platypus getting martial arts designed after them now do you ? Of course you dont !
Sex of the mantis
The mantis takes sex very seriously. I’m sure most of you already know this but apparently the female mantis consumes the male mantis during/after sex depending on how good the sex is. This is remincent of humans, but in their case the biting of head is typically replaced with a more civilised approach like a simple break up or in some cases a more deadly approach like the divorce maintenance fees is praticed.
But not everyone know that this might not truly be the case. Some has suggested that the female mantis bites the male mantis’s head off due to surrounding voyeur scientists eager to study how mantis breed, that it is infact the stress of being observed that causes the female mantis to have such deadly S&M tendacies.
Next time i shall blog about the mantis shrimp !
Sources:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mantis_religiosa.jpg
http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/index.php?cat=599
https://storeforknowledge.com/images/mantis.gif
http://www.gizmowatch.com/entry/tokyo-in-peril-monster-praying-mantis-robot-on-the-prowl/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/showmeeuphoria/278635073/
http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/04/friday_weird_sex_blogging_-_lo.php
