If you haven’t seen this video of the amazing peacock spider, filmed by Dr. Jurgen Otto, you’re in for a real treat:
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Little Things Matter
Little Things Matter
If you haven’t seen this video of the amazing peacock spider, filmed by Dr. Jurgen Otto, you’re in for a real treat:
You’re recycling videos, I see :p
But of all of the videos, I wouldn’t mind seeing this one many times over!
Remarkable video…….especially when you take into account the size of the spiders, it’s even more so.
I wonder whether vibrations audible to the female might be generated when the male peacock spider vibrates his abdominal display.
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