The University of Auckland

But a new study on South African - or Springbok - praying mantids, commonly found in New Zealand after first being identified here in the 1970s, shows the male of the species has developed a highly unusual strategy to avoid being consumed…

A collaboration between the University of Auckland, the University of Michigan and Duke University in the US, the study investigated 50 years of births in New Zealand and followed them for 30 years.It found that people admitted to…