animal behavior
Crickets Overeat to Avoid Becoming Spider Meals
Fairy tales will tell you that the monster will want you fattened up first before it eats you. But in nature, fattening yourself up may just be the best way to avoid becoming someone's else's snack. That's at least true for crickets, which purposely overeat to give them a better chance of surviving an encounter with a predatory spider.
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