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Outsourced hearing in spiders by using their webs as auditory sensors
- h2odragon 5y agoFits nicely with keeping most of their brains in their legs: lowest latency. Stephenson in "Cryptonomicon" has a scene where a character attempts to trick a spider by touching the web, and remarks that it had never worked. Really? I've always found a gentle puff of breath sufficient to trick a spider. but then you hafta get them something to apologize for the prank.
- leephillips 5y agoIn my sparse and random testing I’ve found that I can easily trick the spider once or twice, but that they learn to ignore me pretty quickly.
- h2odragon 5y agoI might be training mine to expect treats.