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🕷️Jumping Spider POLL🕷️

  • 👀 360 Vision 3
  • 🦶Taste w/ Feet 1
  • 🎵Males Dance 8
  • 🐱Hunt like Cats 3
  • 2022-12-03
  • 15 votes
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What's your favorite fact about jumping spiders?  If you don't see one you like let us know in the comments.

Photo Courtesy of Be Smart

And - what makes jumping spider eyes 👀👀👀👀 so amazing? Watch this video by our friend Dr. Joe Hanson of Be Smart: Why 8 Eyes are Better than 2 (...If You’re A Spider!) to find out.

And- if you want to check out their dancing moves watch Deep Look's video: For These Tiny Spiders, It's Sing or Get Served. 

Comments

Darron Perry Jr

The way their front eyes allow for superior color vision in spite of the physics of light at that scale is pretty awesome too.

Valerie Taber

They way they are fooled by the back end (with the wiggly faux antennae) of hairstreak butterflies into thinking they are lunging at the butterfly's head is cool.