Assertion: mantis | /r/CapableOf | exhibit sexual cannibalism
Facets:
value: mostly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: That’s mostly because mantises exhibit sexual cannibalism, meaning that the female mantis will sometimes eat her mate after, or even during, the mating process.
text: In praying mantids that exhibit sexual cannibalism, it occurs in 13–28% of natural encounters in the field, thus imparting significant mortality on males during the breeding season.