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Fitness is key in spider sex, study finds
Energy :: IL :: USA | 3 months ago
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A BIG body and gaudy colours aren't enough to ensure a male spider gets sex. Biologists say a golden orb-web spider needs a bit of vigour too. Michael Kasumovic and Frank Seebacher, of the University of NSW and University of Sydney respectively, say
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Harvesting silk from a spider – video
Oxford :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
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Harvesting silk from a spider video Fritz Vollrath's silk group at Oxford has been going for about 15 years and has perfected a technique to reel silk directly from the spider. At the start of this film a spider is pinned down after being sedated
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Observatory: An Anomaly in Mating: Self-Castration Raises Reproductive Success
Singapore :: Singapore | 11 months ago
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It might seem a self-destructive habit, but in removing their genitals, a new study reports, the spiders are actually improving their reproductive success...When invaders intact males come in, eunuchs fight and do much better than the intact males,
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Nephilengys malabarensis spider loses its penis during sex to make it more fierce in battle against love rivals
London :: United Kingdom | 11 months ago
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The male nephilengys malabarensis spider loses its spider penis when it has sex with a female, which is in itself a clever (if potentially painful) evolutionary trick, as it plugs up the lady spider's genitals and stops other men impregnating it...
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Spiders Snare, Bite & Eat Snake in Web: Incredible Footage Goes Viral [VIDEOS]
Cairns :: Australia | 1 year ago
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Share This Story The video has gone viral since it hit the Internet, evoking, no doubt, a mixture of emotions from (probably) disgust to wonder and from a fascination with the primeval side of life to an equally strong, if morbid, fascination with
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Arachnophobic? Then don't watch this incredible footage of the spider that eats snakes for breakfast
Cairns :: Australia | 1 year ago
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25 April 2012 Australia has cemented its reputation as the home of the world's most dangerous creepy crawlies with this video of a spider eating a half a metre long snake. Cairns kite surfer Ant Hadleigh filmed the golden orb spider devouring the
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How Spiders Avoid Sticking to Their Webs (Videos)
San José :: Costa Rica | 1 year ago
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March 11, 2012 Spiders avoid sticking to their webs thanks to a combination of clever leg movements and branching leg hairs covered in a nonstick chemical coating, new research suggests. Orb-weavers are a group of spiders that build spiral wheel-
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Spider silk violin strings made
Tōkyō :: Japan | 1 year ago
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Spider silk spun into violin strings Science and technology reporter, BBC News More than 300 spiders were used to generate the thousands of strands of silk making up each string A Japanese researcher has used thousands of strands of spider silk to
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Why spiders don't stick to their own webs
San José :: Costa Rica | 1 year ago
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For the study, conducted by researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and University of Costa Rica, the web-weaving behaviour of two tropical species, Nephila clavipes and Gasteracantha cancriformis, was recorded with a video
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A Spider Web’s Strength Lies in More Than Its Silk
Rome :: GA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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February 7, 2012 Research finds that, apart from silk strength, spider webs' design determines their durability. (Daniel Mihailescu/AFP/Getty Images) While researchers have long known of the incredible strength of spider silk, the robust nature of
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