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[-] Thrashy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The Wikipedia article for these little monsters describes the males aggressively fighting over females mid-mating, to the point of killing some as they attempt to tear them away from one another, and then squeezing the eggs out of their dead bodies to fertilize them... Gonna guess it's the same one.

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