Assertion: female | /r/CapableOf | eat male
Facets:
value: always
type: DEGREE
value: in one situation
type: TEMPORAL
value: in the other
type: OTHER
value: after a mating event
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: When a female ate a male after a mating event, she was found to have around 17.7 per cent more of his biological material in her reproductive tissues, including her eggs and ovaries, than a female who only mated and did not cannibalise her mate,” explained lead researcher Kate Barry, a biologist at Macquarie University in Sydney.
text: so we get to know precisely as to why females consume males in one situation and not the other.
text: However, the sexual cannibalism is just a little too complex as females don’t always eat the male.
text: Apart from evolutionary reasons scientists believe that females feed on their males because they’d probably like to have better food one that helps them live longer lifespans and look after their young.