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- noun Plural form of
palp .
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Examples
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Male Nephilengys malabarensis spiders can lose their sexual organs, known as palps, during sex.
Male spiders sacrifice their genitals to fertilise big hungry females 2012
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Walking slowly forwards, he arches his dark forelegs over his head, then suddenly thumps them down, all the time his dark palps quivering under his face.
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Dr Li told the Guardian that it was unclear how the broken palps continued to inseminate the female after being severed from the male, but said such "remote copulation" was more than a simple draining of sperm into the female.
Male spiders sacrifice their genitals to fertilise big hungry females 2012
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Li believes that males evolved to lose their palps because the strategy allowed them to fertilise females even if the organ was broken off in seconds or the female ate the male alive.
Male spiders sacrifice their genitals to fertilise big hungry females 2012
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All of the spiders mated, leaving 22 males with completely severed palps and three with partially damaged genitals.
Male spiders sacrifice their genitals to fertilise big hungry females 2012
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Only a third had entered the females, with the rest still lurking in the broken-off palps.
Male spiders sacrifice their genitals to fertilise big hungry females 2012
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The males are slighter, with swollen dark palps and bold, dark front legs.
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The injuries the males sustain make them more aggressive, with eunuch spiders more aggressive than those with one working palp, and those with two palps the least aggressive.
Male spiders sacrifice their genitals to fertilise big hungry females 2012
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He moves in at super-speed as a mere blur to insert his palps at this vital point, and one registers their union only as an instantaneous flux of diaphanous limbs.
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Their courtship was an infinitely sensitive piece of choreography, conducted by the delicate touch of 16 translucent legs and four palps (the short feelers at the front of the head), as well as vibrations transmitted through a tracery of silk.
strev commented on the word palps
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June 14, 2009