Praying Mantis Love is Waaay Weirder Than You Think | Deep Look
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These pocket-sized predators are formidable hunters. But when it comes to hooking up, male mantises have good reason to fear commitment.
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Mike Maxwell recently finished a ninth season studying the love life of the praying mantises that live around Bishop, a town in California’s Eastern Sierra.
Over that time, he’s seen some unsettlingly strange behaviors.
It’s pretty common knowledge that female mantises sometimes eat males during or after mating - a habit that biologists call “sexual cannibalism.”
But among the bordered mantises that Maxwell researches, it gets weirder than that.
As it turns out, when a male mantis loses his head, it doesn’t mean he loses the urge to procreate.
You read that right. Not only can some male bordered mantises continue mating even while being attacked by their female counterparts, some males are able to mount a female and initiate mating even after getting their heads completely bitten off.
“It’s a really weird, strange behavior,” said Maxwell, “So what’s going on? Why do they do it?”
-- What do praying mantises eat?
Praying mantises are mostly ambush predators that typically eat small animals like grasshoppers, crickets, bees, crickets and butterflies . They use camouflage to hide themselves and wait for their prey to come within striking distance. Then they use their raptorial forelimbs to grab their prey. Spikes on their forelimbs help them hold their prey while they eat.
-- Why do praying mantises eat each other?
Female praying mantises sometimes eat males that approach them to mate. They are only able to do this because mantises are predators and the female mantises are bigger and stronger than the males.
-- Do praying mantises bite?
Most mantises will not bite people but they will pinch people with their forelimbs to defend themselves. It feels a lot like getting bit, trust me.
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NO HUMAN CAN COMPLAIN ABOUT THEIR LOVE LIFE EVER AGAIN
No complaints here!
Soo is their a colab happening soon? :)
watch me
True in a million ways
It's Okay To Be Smart don't have a love life 😪
Imagine being born as a praying mantis and then realising you’re a male.
Really helps to have no self awareness in a situation like that.
69th like
Transgender prey mantis
Garbage looooooooooool id avoid females at all costs
Garbage they don’t always do that. Only when their hungry. Lol so hopefully she had a lunch before the action.
Male mantis: I love you.
Female mantis:... So you have chosen death.
Get laid and die, or not get laid and live...
Catalina :D still gone die from autumn nights
@Stephen Curry why tf do I see u everywhere?!
We meet again
@@AlterBoi01 no you see Justin Y. Everywhere
"mom how was dad like?"
*"Delicious."*
xDDDD HAHHAHAHA
X of the D
ISKSKSMSKA,DUSKAJISMAUK-
Literally
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This brings the term “So no head” to the next level.
When she said we wanted her to give us head, that was not what we meant.
This is going on r/cursedcomments
Yes it does 🤣🤣🤣
Wait so how can he eat?
@@Minecraft_2008.
He doesnt he just nuts then dies
*_I wasn’t mentally prepared for this_*
I you understand why who don't wanna put with and or BELIEVE women's BS are called incels
I screaming much while watching this 😥
What happened *ohh may god*
It happened when i commented on this
@@alifmeylinda6189 you're too little for youtube, sorry..
I'm scared
Male mantis: I would die for you, my love.
Female mantis: *SAY NO MORE*
Male mantis looses head
Male mantis gets laid any way
Lol that was cute. Clueless male mantises
Hahaha
🤣⚔
At least 🕷 and 🦂 are not like this males are not out clasted by females.
My man the mantis is looking at these ladies thinking, "Yeah there's a chance she'll reject me, laugh at me, possibly eat my face, but I'm still going for it."
What's your excuse?
I'm not a mantis
@@thatcyberbunnie7775 Facts
I’m not a mantis, and I don’t do cannibalism.
I’m a stressful ball of awkward hormones
I can't climb
2:02 This is why I immediately feed my girlfriend when she says she's hungry.
😂
I would say 'giving her a hand' immediately
😂😂
😂😂😂
😂
"ask her out man! dont worry she wont bite! what's the worst that can happen?"
Well she can eat me
( Lenny face intensifies )
She could also be seeing other men dude
@@lunapostsstuff it's not men it's praying mantis
Yeah thanks man
*walks to her*
* gets eaten*
Me in heaven: I WILL NEVER GET A GIRLFRIEND AGAIN
Velocit :C whoooosh
Imagine getting killed and eaten by your own crush.
AsnBlox [ALT] yeah, that about sums it up my love life actually, lack of rather
Such an epic SIMP moment
Jeffrey dauhmers victims.
@@misterpoopnose6547 Agreed!
AsnBlox [ALT] Well at least she likes you
"She won't bite!" They said.
"WE'RE JUST MATING" SHE SAYS
Male mantis: So what’s you’re favorite thing to eat when you go on a date?
Female mantis: You 👁👄👁
😭😭😭
😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Mantis: *gets head bitten off
Mantis’s Body: “my time has come”
LMFAOOAOAOOA!!!!
And it came...
And so have i
@@rishabhgupta2542
Jai Hind
@@arthurmorgan7770 that came out of nowhere.
Baby mantis: mommy where’s daddy?
Mom mantis: enough questions, Markus
Oh so he's a BOY...
Markus gonna die soon
what's daddy?
mom mantis:you know when we say they look like a snack?well he tasted good so he’s a snack
@idrinklemonwater * in mah belly!
3:42 they take thinking with your crouch to a whole new level
*crotch
female mantis:
“the crunchy parts are my favorite”
Cant forget the *hard* parts
And the *wet* stuff which is just as yummy
So that male,
Is literally *inside* of her.
Lord Alex The Dev STOP-
xKornix lol
*inside*
Lord Alex The Dev ayyyyy-
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
“He be lookin like a snack” has a whole new meaning xD
😂
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
😂😂
Egg Bird looooooooooooooooooooooool
😂
Human male: I swear man, she drains me of my life!
Mantis Male: Dude, She is literally draining me of my life right now
*”he said as his head was being bit off”*
*All women are the same*
FIJI !
@@Lazymath007_ oh yeah? Then don't ever marry a woman or infact leave ur mom and sisters as soon as possible cus "they all are SAME", ok? 😃
@@Jiminscookie don't worry women makes such jokes about men all the time. I just reversed it this time 😀
Female mantis be like
“ OFF WITH HIS HEAD “
I knew this was going to be brutal, but I was really not prepared for the intensity of the footage.
2:05 He's missing the entire lower half of his body, is currently being eaten like a stalk of celery and IS STILL ALIVE. I wouldn't consider myself a squeamish person to these types of things but I deffinitly had to pause to recollect myself xD
Andii Neushul right there with u guys... Jeez... Sends shivers.......
I've seen that happen IRL
2:04
If you thought your love life was bad, have a look at this guy whos getting eaten alive by his partner.
Andii Neushul I felt the pain of that mantis
2:04, "Honey, would you stop eating me?"
ryantres85 no numnumnum.
ryantres85 😂🤣😂🤣😂
That scene was hella nasty
"No I'm hungry -_-" (XD)
The D wasn‘t enough for her. She wanted more.
2:03 OH MY GOD HE’S STILL ALIVE!
Half his body’s gone, along with most of his organs and he’s still moving! And she’s continuing to just chomp down on him at a leisurely pace and he looks vaguely annoyed!
Edit: 3:39 this is taking necrophilia to a whole new level.
The male is dead it's muscles just reflexing
well thats reassuring that he's not aware of it, but it sure looks like he is from the video...yikes@@ratnadevi9643
No one:
Not a single soul:
Praying manties: you are what you eat
literally
Atleast he ain't gotta pay no child support.
The child support jokes are cringy
lol he’s dead
@4ran he was the support
He kinda was the child support!!
Well he's paying with his life to pass on his genes.
Male Humans: this love is killing me
Male mantis: this love is literally killing me
LMFAOooooosososksbs
Cold
let’s kill this LOVE!
@Sophia Zheng Lol😅😂😂😂
@@sssaiferr9572 hahahahaha
Male mantis: You look beautiful honey!
Female mantis: And you look delicious
Male mantis :......I think you ment handsome...
Female Mantis : *Did I stutter?*
Lol
"why would a mantis eat their own kind"
It's called cannibalism kids
Lots of bugs and creatures do this.
@@mistercarterceoofdoodlewor6468 even some humans have done that too☹️
@@daphenomenalz4100 wendigos...
“this mantis is at the top of her game”
“GIRL DON’T I KNOW IT”
Sarah Mechem sometimes they do. I was a victim 😂
She's a strong, independent woman!
Sarah Mechem she got that good good
Sarah Mechem THICC
gargoyles9999 Extraaaaa Thicc!!!
Knew the females ate the male but I never knew the decapitated males could still move and reproduce by themselves. Fascinating. I learnt something new today!
Right
troll
piplupcola Men always get the job done. No matter how women treat us.
its fuvked up LOL
Same thing. I was prepared to whine that they were exactly as weird as I thought (eating the male after or while copulating), but didn't know it works the other way too.
Human: I’ll sleep when I’m dead!!!
Mantis: that’s cute.
Male mantis: "Hey cutie, eat me up ;)"
Female mantis: "Rips head out and eats it"
Male mantis: "Well, that didn't go so well"
Hope mantis from Kung Fu panda never wants children
This lowkey underrated
Who says Mantis was a dude?
Mister Poop Nose since ever
I know its I'm late. But in the show, mantis did fell in love with a female mantis and he realised the mating process was... bad for his health... So yeah he will definitely not have kids, cause he almost experienced it... lol.
In the second movie.
He mentions his dad that has been eaten by his mom.
And that he would like to find a girlfriend like that (if I remember well)
these videos are filled with more drama than a soap opera
drama, action, comedy, romance, HORROR, all in one, comrade
ARMYYY
Exactly 😂😂😂
It has more then the beauty community
Pour capter l'attention, oui. .. conséquence de Disney world
The insect world is like the ultimate horror story! While I was aware the poor male often gets decapitated during “the act” somehow the sight of his headless body deciding to make a play for it independently seems even more disturbing. I guess it really is the ultimate “what have you got to lose” moment.
Female mantis: “Fine I guess you are my little pogchamp. Come here.”
Male mantis: *comes over*
*YOU FELL FOR IT FOOL! THUNDER CROSS SPLIT ATTACK!*
I was yelling at my screen trying to warn the second mantis
Meeeeeee😂😂😂😂😂
"Nah man don't do it she ain't worth it!"
"MOVE KING, GO BE FREE, THAT NUT AINT WORTH IT!!"😂😂😂
Lololol sameeee
Jerjare 😂😂
He protecc
He attacc
But most importantly....
He the snacc
I thought u were gonna say "but most importantly … he want his head bacc" but that works 2 lol
Richard Molenaar Good one.
Potats
literally
That meme died like 4 years ago
Is it just me or I find praying mantises just so elegant and beautiful
I thought the title is
"Praying mantis: Love is war!"
Headless Mantis: And That’s how I met your mother.
It’s a comment not science
Headless mantis [unintelligible babbling]
Mother: Drags away and loud crunching is heard.
@Praying Mantis093 ikr
🤣🤣🤣
I had a dream one time I was a lady bug and one of these were eating me…scariest dream of my life…
I miss ten seconds ago when I didn’t know this existed 😂
The way mantis eat is probably one of the most horrifying ways to imagine yourself being eaten in nature. They just hold you firmly in place, picking and nibbling at you at a leisurely pace.
imagine a mantis of your size hunting you down and eating you slowly.
André P.S. OK now that is scary :&
André P.S. thank you I will now have nightmares
Sauron 555 be welcome, have a nice night, dream with the mant.. I mean the angels
Dat Dr. Greger picture tho
Welp.
Yeah.
I'm loving this conversation
mhmm!
So...
Uh-huh.
Male mantis: Baby, I would die for you.
Female mantis: *took it literally*
HAHAA REMINDS ME WHEN MANTIS IN KUNGFUPANDA2 SAID SOMETHING LIKE "Man, I'm so lucky, I don't have any problems with my dad. Maybe cause my mom eat him when I was young" OR SOMETHING AROUND THAT LINE
Imagine the neighbors seeing her with a different mantis everytime
Neighbors: "Fukken player"
The neighbor is with a different mantis every time too 🤣
Serial killer
@@crimsonsomething6131 I-
Underrated bro this is hilarious
- Mom, where’s Dad?
- Let’s just say he was a
“Good” man
Salvador Ibarra "Good" man...tis
...finger-licking good!
kivu88 “Real meal for five bucks” lol
He was good man and delicious
"food" man
This really adds a twist to royal drama shows when they say “off with your head”
This puts a whole new meaning to “she’s chewing my head off”
THE GREEN MALE GETTING EATEN AT 2:05 WAS STILL ALIVE EVEN THOUGH HIS ENTIRE TORSO WAS MISSING OMGGG
Kilian Seibl nature...
Anonimo Nature indeed.
I thought the same. Gave me goosebumps...
Kilian Seibl I was really shocked when I saw this. :/
That male experience being eaten alive from leg to its brain, nature is merciless...
Lol if I was a mantis please make me female
Alexander Leimone you know most spices of mantises don't do this.
@@anarchistcocktail3455 Do the pepper mantises do it or the garlic mantises?
....
Also letting you know some female mantis die after laying the eggs or whatever
@@ReformedCatfish better than being eaten from toe to head
"The worst she can do is say no bro"
Her:
Female mantis: Wow he's still going after I ate his head.
Male mantis lower part: You only ate the top head baby.
I wouldn’t feel like a winner if i had my head eaten
Joefrenne S u wouldn't feel anything
When you ask for head
@@chickendingus More like...when SHE asks for head.
1000th like
Eaten, digested, and pooped
"The worst she can do is say no."
lol
Male mantis : Hey :)
Female mantis : *Peace was never an option*
Well, that ensures that the male won't cheat on the female.
But the female will still cheat
The ultimate matriarchy
Ahmed Rashid true
Ahmed Rashid lol
Ahmed Rashid HA
Male Mantis: " *Cat calls* Heeeeey baby, what's a girl like yo-"
Female Mantis: *CHOMP*
Better to be an incel.
And find some place warm
Smartass012 Why do you watch Film Theory? He has a girl.
Devil? Yes I Mantis Female a Devil : Mantis Angel it love!
Mantis Female : no
Mantis Male : love!
Mantis Female : >:( it Dead no Love no baby....1000 Sun
Mantis Male : :'( dead
Marianne Macharia no, no i dont think it would be, maybe by a little bit but not a lot
@M M lol you're delusional
I once found a few of these eggs out at the farm and I didn't know what they were. So I took them home with me and kept them in my room. I had maybe 4 of them and one hatched and I had to gather up a ton of little babies around my room and set the rest out in the yard to hatch.
Child mantis: mom where's my dad
.
MOTHER mantis: I ATE him
Guy mantis 1: Go on, do it, tell her you love her!
Guy mantis 2: Okay, I'm going! Wish me luck!
Guy mantis 2: *approaches female* So I was wondering if you wanted to, like, go out for food sometime.
Female mantis: Sure, the meal's on you. *eats him*
Hahaha
Underrated coment
Female mantis: ...Literally.
and the first mantis be like: Look at him go, so proud of him
"In a way, this guy might be the ultimate winner"
*Headless mantis getting carried away*
Off into the sunset.. ●~●
Lol I literally busted out laughing from this comment
HAHAHAHAHA
You:
*has head*
The guy she tells you not to worry about:
*has no head*
Props to the guy that shrank himself to film this 👍👊👊
2:06 JESUS HE IS STILL ALIVE
Mantis male:hey OW that’s my intestines ohh ok now my spleen ......hey at least lemme clean myself ok ..............yeah ow that’s my neck
omfg i wanna die
How is that so tho
He looks high
That was actually a horror show, YUCK
Female mantis: *”yo boy, come gimme some”*
Male mantis: *comes over*
Female mantis: *”you fool...”*
*Cross thunder split attack*
ZA WARUDO!!!!!
Almost like us humans..
THUNDER CROSS SPLIT ATTACK
@@jamaldavis831 these replies prove that jojo fans are everywhere
When I was young
It entered my shirt
I screamed I thought I was gonna die
Imagine a headless zombie mantis going towards your face
NO GOD PLEASE STAHHHHHP
Food-zoned
DPOH Productions haiqjhdiqhsuaushaushaus
amazing
Made me laugh
Made me chuckle. It also made me cry minutes later.
Best comment yet.
Man, that was shocking! I knew they might eat the males but I had no idea about the headless zombie mating. Wow.
That little horror twist at the end was perfect, much like everything else on this channel.
Thanks, CBA!
CBA so true!
takes "she ate me out" to a new level
When I was a kid I went outside and found hundreds of baby mantises, it was seriously the cutest thing I've ever seen. I'm sad though because I used to find them every single year in my garage and on my car. I haven't seen one in two years.
I’ll never complain about my wife again
Yes u will,lol
Just give it a few beers ...
you never should in the first place
@@EhCloserLook if you don’t know what you’re talking about keep your little comments to yourself
@@EhCloserLook rude
This lady sounds way too happy about this...
LOL true ¡
Word😂😂
Anthony M of course she is , why she wouldn’t ?
Jaime Duncan right why wouldnt she be happy seeong a insect eating another one alive?? Do u have problems?
😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨 OMG your right
The mantis in the thumbnail is like
U got games on yo phone
I witnessed this in action as little girl been scaring ever since.. I found a large green praying mantis outside and I put it in an aquarium to feed and keep as a pet.. A week later I found a smaller brown one and thought hey two mantis they can be friends I put them together in a large aquarium then I can home from school to check on them and the male was walking around without a head for a rather long time and female had laid an egg sack.. I had a melt down. Not long after the female slowly died.. I did get to see the babies hatch and released them outside. Definitely not something I was prepared to see as child without warning..
When you tryin to get intimate with her and she eats ur head.
#Relatable
#JustMantisThings
#ohgodpleasehelpiambeingeaten
#ijustwantedpussy
#shutupyouidiots
#dildogang
"Ah... The nature is so beautiful!"
"Yeah, sure... say that again..."
😂
Everything... is charming in it's own way.
2:07 he probably all like ahhhhhhhh im getting eated alive 😂😂😂🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🎬
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaatttt I can't believe they mate without head... animals are WAY cooler than humans hahahah
2:08 **Casually cleans arms while getting eaten alive**
LOL IKR
Good thing they can't feel pain. That's why he's so calm about it.
@@EvilGears Certainly wonder what he must of thought was happening then 😂
@@EvilGears he can
@@fellipe6130 Well. Pain requires an emotional response which insects dont do. But it's similar
Child: "Mommy...Why is that I never got to meet Daddy?"
Female: ".......uhhhhh...."
Female: *i eat ur dad thats why* 😐
Baby mantis: AAAAH YOUR A KILLER
Female: 😐
I love deep look ♡ the images, the information, the voiceover ♡
Worst she could say is no;
Female mantis:
2:04
Male: Honey, I’m home from work!
Female: Good, your just in time for dinner!
Male: Really? What’s for dinner?
Female: Y O U!
Alternate ending (Female: [STARES WIDE EYED WITH A DEVIL SMILE WHILE AT MALE])
Male: I loved you but why did you have to eat me...?
@@misterpoopnose6547 with the music at 3:28
I'll just send a link to a video that brings the whole "Honey, I'm Home" and Mantis getting its head eaten joke to a whole new level
th-cam.com/video/xHffjNbWmig/w-d-xo.html
3:36 I wasn’t mentally prepared for this
Nature is weird af, but its kinda hot...
L i t e r a l l y.
@@NYwhydowe glad to see am not the only one
@@NYwhydowe no
2:00 is almost just as bad.
Female mantis: (Eats the whole male mantis)
Me: oh my- I wasn't ready for this mentally..
Is no one else going to comment on how that first mantis looked very alive throughout the whole process up until she got to his head?
I was shook by how he was still just living that entire time
y'all really didn't need to intensify the munching sounds
why is bug you i seen asian videos they catch bug and all and eat even mice lmoa
*yall*
but they did. they really did need to.
Masaya ? It’s ASMR
We all know a cow like yourself smacks way louder
I was eating a waffle
I don’t want my waffle anymore
blue waffle
can I have it
@Paul James #didnotknowyoucouldmakwahastagoutofanythingsocoolthisisfunwhomadethis
LillyCookies DDAENG Ilpal ilsam sampal ddaeng
@Paul James but yeah poor waffle😪
Now that’s a foodie call! But the male mantis Is the dinner! Well at least he’ll be united with her…in her belly that is!😅
I love pbs, there the jack of all traits of public broadcasting documents, interviews, science, nature documentaries!
Um excuse me, miss you dropped a perfectly good wing.
Great Frost Hawk 😂
Praying Mantis? More like Preying Mantis! So awesome yet so horrifying at the same time!
Keznen no not awesome
Stop
I probably should've commented this a long while back, but you guys make awesome content! 🤘
This channel is class! So incredible to believe natural selection is is responsible for this!
**kunfu panda has left the chat**
XelanddX They actually joke about that in the second film. Mantis mentions his father was eaten headless, and later laments that he never got to settle down with a girl and “she’d bite [his] head off”.
TheKagawaLife hahah I remember in one episode, mantis said he'd love to meet a girl and that he would like her to eat his head😂😂😂
XelanddXʟᴏʟ
When he was trapped in kung fu panda 2
He said
I didnt expect to die like this,i expected to die when my wife chops my head off