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4 sty 2024 · A 2023 study of ten spider species found most spiders froze for about a minute in response to a few rapid puffs of air. Jorō spiders lay motionless for more than an hour.
30 paź 2021 · The jumping spiders shown to have the sharpest eyesight and the most impressive smarts belong to the genus Portia, found in Africa, Asia, and Australia. These spiders prefer to hunt other...
Although spiders can’t literally count one-two-three, the research suggests some jumping spiders have a sense of numbers roughly equivalent to that of 1-year-old humans. Spiders assess risk. Being a tiny spider wandering about in the wild is risky business.
27 paź 2021 · Although spiders are sometimes thought of as being creepy crawly animals, new evidence suggests some get scared and assess danger in almost the same way as humans.
26 lip 2021 · The researchers chose jumping spiders to test biological motion cues because the animals, with eight eyes, are among the most visually adept of all arthropods. The team placed the spiders, a species called Menemerus semilimbatus, into a forced-choice experiment.
15 sty 2022 · Jumping Spiders Outsmart Their Prey. Most spiders have poor vision, despite their multitude of eyeballs. Instead, they rely on vibrations to understand their environment. Jumping spiders have the best vision of the arachnid community. Two huge forward-facing eyes pair with three sets of smaller eyes to give them nearly 360-degree vision.
13 lip 2021 · Using the forced-choice paradigm, we investigated which cues humans perceive as frightening and disgusting in spiders, one of the most unpleasant animals in the world. The research was carried out with a representative sample of N = 1,015 Slovak adults.
