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Friday, April 15, 2011

Male Beetles Fight over Female

There are many kinds of beetles in the world, but male Darwin’s beetle has some of the biggest jaws of all. The male's over-sized jaws are crucial in its objective to climbs trees searching for a female. This searching can go though many meters, until it finds a mate. In this journey, a male will seek out the other males; this is when they need to fight. It uses its jaws in combat as it hooks them under the opposite beetle's wings, pulls up and throws it to the ground (from 20 meters above, as they are in tall trees most of the time)



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