Who's Dying for Sex?

摘要

Maydianne Andrade still remembers the first time she saw a true femme fatale—and her willing partner—in action. Andrade, then a graduate student at the University of Toronto, had placed a male and a female Australian redback spider together and settled back to watch. As in many spider species, the two made an odd couple, she acknowledges: "The female's about the size of a marble, and the male's a rice grain."