PrimalPredilxion wrote:Definitely female predators... Sexual cannibalism in nature is ALWAYS when the female devours the male. Evolutionarily speaking, the males get eaten (either voluntarily or not...) so that the female has plenty of nutrients and energy to create healthy offspring. Males eating females just feels weird and wouldn't provide any reproductive advantage anyway, so...
Also, females have the added advantage of being sexy and seductive, more easily luring men to their demise with their siren's song...
Very much this. For me, vore is on some level about nature in the most primal, brutal sense. Even when there's no real nature aspect, thinking about it in that manner is what gets me going. And when M/F occurs, it sets off this alarm in my brain that screams "Unnatural!". And there's another alarm that also gets sets off that, even though I intellectually know many fans of M/F are other women, screams "Misogyny!". And that can lead to me saying some things that are often (though not always) completely uncalled for.
Aviannapper wrote:AMCJavelin wrote:The praying Mantis female I think eats her mate as well. In most animal species its the female that is larger, stronger and calls the shots.
The female is a static gene keeper, the male is a dynamic gene modifier. Therefore, creatures with sexual reproduction better survive than creatures with asexual reproduction.
Because of this, females are larger than males in those species that tend to decrease in size with evolution (insects were much larger).
Those species in which the male is larger than the female, increase in size over time (this refers to mammals, for example horses in the past were the size of a rabbit).
Well, that's not really accurate. In predatory birds, females are usually MUCH larger than males, and both owls and raptors can be considerably larger than the first birds. Other than ostriches and rheas, females also tend to be larger in ratites. As for insects, the giant insects of prehistory aren't direct ancestors of modern insects, and seeing as I can't find a single mention of the size of Rhyniognatha, the earliest known insect, I doubt its size was exceptional. Females are also larger than males in many species of snake, perhaps most dramatically in green anacondas, with males toping out around 10 feet long and exceptional females reaching at least 17 feet in length, with reports of much larger.