Sacrificial Mothers
- Offspring of the species Stegodyphus lineatus eat their mother
- Females of Segestria florentina sometimes die while guarding her eggs, and the hatched spiders will later eat her
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Famous quotes containing the words sacrificial and/or mothers:
“Men, forever tempted to lift the veil of the future—with the aid of computers or horoscopes or the intestines of sacrificial animals—have a worse record to show in these “sciences” than in almost any scientific endeavor.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
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—D.W. Winnicott (20th century)