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Helaena Targaryen ([personal profile] honorism) wrote in [personal profile] megatheorem 2025-05-04 07:34 pm (UTC)

He's a large one, about 3 and a half inches long. [She sends another picture of it in the palm of her hand, easily longer than it.] He's quite friendly.

They say that the females will kill and eat the males during or after mating, but there's suggestion that its actually stress from being observed by the scientists that trigger it, at least more often than not.

And they get their names because of the position of their front legs that makes it look like they're praying. And they're ambush predators! Some of them will even eat small frogs and birds!

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