Nature keeps male horned weevils from stupid scraps.
A horned weevil can’t pick a real fight with a male too big for him because the bigger one can’t get a good grip, according to William G. Eberhard of the University of Costa Rica in University City and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and his colleagues.
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