Australia’s Scary Spiders
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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How Intelligent Are Spiders?
In red-back spiders, males encourage to be cannibalised. When the male inserts one of his little legs, he somersaults into the mouth parts of the female and only then does she start nibbling on him. The other more aggressive stories with the San Andreas Cross spider, for example, or a detail you've worked with the Golden Orb web spider. Female control over mating and copulation where females can stop copulation and therefore control how much sperm they receive from a male. So, how intelligent are spiders? They are probably more intelligent than we appreciate them to be and have better cognition than we think they are.
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