Originally published at: This dancing mantis is as stunning as nature gets | Boing Boing
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Simulated googly eyes for defense?
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looks pretty scary to me, although I did not sit through 7 minutes of mantis tiktok wiggling
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It looks like a silly cartoon preying mantis LOL!
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looks like an anime villain!
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Rise, flutter and spread your glorious wings oh most awesome decapitator of the male species.
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Their enemies laugh themselves to death.
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So this is where Tai-Chi comes from…
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I had a hard time not hearing Creature Comforts style narration in my head: “An…and my arms, they, you see, they can go out like this. And if I, if I can just, yes move my body down like this I can kind of twist, you see?”
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Thank you, way less creepy.
Mantises are a great thing in the garden, but never fail to give me a bad case of the willies.
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ALL HAIL ZORAK!. (click-click-click)
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Zorak? Ah hell na, that’s Lawrence, Zorak’s fabulous cousin! 
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I’m going to have to go with this as the most stunning:
Oh, and also - listen to Double Threat, it’s good.
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I’m curious what purpose the dance serves in terms of defense. Does it keep animals/insects with movement-based vision from obliviously blundering right past a still mantis?
Came here to vote for peacock spidras. Not disappointed.
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I stand corrected.
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Pretty sure that’s Lucas’ exotic cousin:
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