Sunday Night Movie: The Peacock Spider

4 Comments / fun, Spiders / By alexwild

If you haven’t seen this video of the amazing peacock spider, filmed by Dr. Jurgen Otto, you’re in for a real treat:

formicidaefantasy
October 23, 2011 at 10:12 pm

You’re recycling videos, I see :p

But of all of the videos, I wouldn’t mind seeing this one many times over!

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Don Parsons
October 24, 2011 at 5:00 am

Remarkable video…….especially when you take into account the size of the spiders, it’s even more so.

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John Reinke
November 3, 2011 at 12:17 am

I wonder whether vibrations audible to the female might be generated when the male peacock spider vibrates his abdominal display.

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Chris Reid
November 29, 2012 at 3:45 pm

They sure are! Check out this great recent paper;

Multi-Modal Courtship in the Peacock Spider, Maratus volans (O.P.-Cambridge, 1874)
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0025390

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