New Spider discovered that builds fake decoys of itself

Watch this video of an explanation of Pink's video FUNHOUSE and see what he says about the dark being soon to arrive on earth and take the throne(believed to be on the 21st)! He says it creates clones of itself just like this spider!

hmmmn,they learnt from soldiers. did you see the vegetarian spidy who loves children,so cool.

well,would you fancy a bug eyed hairy maneater with 8 legs.i guess thats how it works maybe.

Awesome!!! Thanks.

Itsy bitsy spider can't count, the dumbass made a replica with 5 legs there are 3 legs missing

Just wondering...... What's the use?

A fly sees a web with a spider in it and thinks, well let's not fly into this web beause there is a spider in it, let's fly into a web without a spider!

Too many spiders in my bedroom in the past two weeks or so...

So a predator grabs the decoy and not the real spider.

That is freaking cool



and lol

Thats a good idea. I'm gonna build some decoys of myself and put them around the house to confuse and distract all those predators that out to get me.

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" You think you killed it but really it hiding under your bed..."

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What is interesting is that the spider used bits of twig wrapped in silk webbing for the legs. That is the use of tools in order to protect itself, that's a higher level of intelligence.

Isn't it funny, most people think animals and insects are dumb- as if we are the most intelligent species there is. Yet we don't know crap about nature like these creatures do, that is the irony of it.

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What some view as "intelligence" is God's genetic engineering.


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It might be NEW to man but I assure you it is not NEW to GOD.

another genius spidy is potia,hunts poison spitting spiders from behind,sets lures for prey,then bungee jumps down on them,many tactical ways,cept lady portias eat them on sex on a web line,if she eats him before he impregnates her,she keeps the sperm!

Because it's part of the reason for the alphabet, and it's creations are one most beautiful in the world.

AMAZING

Would be more impressive if it clones itself rather than making a fake out of leaves and dead bugs.

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I know I have read of S. American orb weavers as well that form groups of 4-6 female spiders to build and maintain the most gorgeous webs one could lay eyes upon.

The weavers work together to build expanses between trees that can reach diameters well over 10 feet.

This diminutive bug poses some sizable questions from an evolution point of view:

1- In which gene resides the conscience of a being or a creature?

2- Can a genetic mutation have an effect on the instinct or the conscience of a being?

I was thinking of my comment and among some of the possibilities the most obvious ones being
that it learned it's own likeness from observing either parent, siblings, or perhaps seeing other spiders of it's kind in their webs because they probably wouldn't live completely isolated form their own kind. Although once they evolved and natural selection enabled the best decoy builders to thrive and the bad artists to perish, it may have become ingrained in the genetics and be more of a natural inherited instinct.
Need a controled experiment to eliminate certain factors, like raising one in isolation so it doesn't see itself or it's own kind, to see if it can make the sculpture anyway naturally or it is a learned skill from some sort of imitation instinct.
And then teach it to survive in natural habitat and set it free after of course.

Becuase if it is lerning it`s image from the spiders around it, like making a picture of it`s neighbour in a web, then it isnt really building a decoy of itself at all, it`s making a sculpture of it`s comrade.

Holy Crap! What an awful way to die!

Recognizing what one looks like is a sign of sentient intelligence. Making a sculpture of yourself but bigger and more menacing is the behavior of someone with mental illness like a dictator who wants everyone to cower before them.
I think its a fair indicator that the mind of a spider can be far more vast than previously thought.

Thank you! how the fuck does it know it has 8 legs?

the neutrinos have mutated the spiders and they have became self aware

Not to burst OP or anyone's bubble because this is really cool..

this is just in response to Chris' comment...spiders have been doing this..this particular species just took it a step further and made it more realistic..and the cyclosa's were part of the group that did this..according to 2009 article listed below.

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LOL! I was going to post this, you beat me to it!