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It's fascinating that a species of spiders perform oral sex.

• vmception 6y ago
  A lot of research I've read has considered spiders to be mindless automatons, which would make the widely varied conditional logic extremely hard to understand how it could be selected for by natural selection, as opposed to some level of more robust thought simply being present in the species.
  • bobbylarrybobby 6y ago
    If behavior is just the aggregate of individual actions, and actions are an output of (the black box that is) the brain, and the brain is an output of genes, then why shouldn't behavior be selected for?
    • vmception 6y ago
      I agree with that, I just don't think its merely if/then logic like I had been exposed to earlier, but more calculated thought process
  • shagie 6y ago
    I'd suggest reading up on the genus of spider Portia (which incidentally is the main "character" of the sci-fi book mentioned above) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portia_(spider) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portia_(spider) A BBC clip about the spider: https://youtu.be/ERuJiSt8pF4 https://youtu.be/ERuJiSt8pF4 - there's more to the longer clip with Portia playing with the web of another spider to get it to move out of position and other behaviors.