This would agree with the likely purpose attributed to platypus venom, which is to incapacitate rather than to kill mating competitors [ 44], a widespread common sexual selection pattern among mammals.
J. because, out of nowhere, he killed his mate of five years.
I shot a glance outside, and on a low branch of the may tree hanging over the water a black-backed gull had apparently killed its mate and was starting to eat it.
As for concocting a brazenly clever denouement to the mystery of who killed Dr. Mate, he plays the book's best mind game with his readers by hiding the culprit in plain sight.
Krause's 2012 book, "The Great Animal Orchestra," includes descriptions of some of the animal music he has discovered: a honking sea anemone, a beaver's eerie keening after a human killed his mate.
Joe explains that a large hybrid bear has attacked and killed his mate, Hitomi.
I remember one time when the police disbanded the Rats after a guy killed his mate with a shovel.
The shell that killed his mates was a "whizz-bang", no sooner whistling over than exploding: "And you'll see all the wonders of no man's land/If a whizz-bang/Hits you".
About the size of a large pea, they are significantly larger than males, which mature after about three months and live for only about six or seven months if they are not killed during mating.
Captain Luis Cazorla of Presidio La Bahía crossed San Antonio Bay to visit the island in 1776, and discovered that the Indians had killed the mates of a shipwrecked British trading vessel.
