8 Awe-Inspiring Spiders

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Whether it’s building bridges across rivers or solving puzzles, spiders are way cooler than you might think. Many have smart or elaborate features that allow them to do some pretty extraordinary things! Hosted by: Olivia Gordon SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Bill & Katie Scholl, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.1977.0037 https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/animals/spiders/how-spiders-see-the-world/ https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0152 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3705731 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.1978.0027 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/06/science/pelican-spiders.html?login=email&auth=login-email https://www.sciencenews.org/article/pelican-spiders-slow-safe-assassins https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=20222 https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/152/2/255/2630854 https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/s-ses010518.php http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/largest-cobwebs http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/longest-cobwebs https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260342083_Darwin%27s_bark_spider https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3202572/ https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0011234 http://www.sahandtarjomeh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/asd659ertyuckjbgas526.pdf https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/04/worlds-oldest-spider-dies-trapdoor-spider-australia-43-animals-spd/ http://www.publish.csiro.au/download/172342/245879 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20704872 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4531227/ http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v35_n3/JoA-35-3-481.pdf https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00379231 http://tinyurl.com/yx9lrl3x http://tinyurl.com/y6zutwge http://tinyurl.com/yxnstlpj https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/pr400875s https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3011943/ https://www.minibeastwildlife.com.au/resources/portia/ http://tinyurl.com/y233ddno https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00171580 http://jeb.biologists.org/content/203/22/3485.short http://tinyurl.com/y33ldg3m http://tinyurl.com/yyrdummu https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4323732/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jeab.189 https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Argyroneta_aquatica/ http://tinyurl.com/y2tdmcjg http://jeb.biologists.org/content/214/13/2175 http://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/2/164 https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/364825/file/575614 https://www.zoo.org/document.doc?id=203 http://tinyurl.com/y3wag4d3 http://jeb.biologists.org/content/214/20/3433 http://tinyurl.com/y43ry266 http://tinyurl.com/y56n29fl Images: https://www.flickr.com/photos/wikiwill/3540970776 https://www.flickr.com/photos/zleng/29352091166 http://tinyurl.com/y2xd3dsm http://tinyurl.com/y3wr9h3m http://tinyurl.com/yxst7w98 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spider_external_anatomy_en.png http://tinyurl.com/y5ou6qac http://tinyurl.com/yy3q6652 http://tinyurl.com/y2vc7cqn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Austrarchaea_sp..jpg http://tinyurl.com/y27v3nsj https://www.flickr.com/photos/44919417@N04/14105641818 http://tinyurl.com/y3c9m35r http://tinyurl.com/y5fab29t https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:0.Figure.png https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3202572/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/23660854@N07/3405613471 https://www.flickr.com/photos/berniedup/16586173944 http://tinyurl.com/y2xjrtr9 https://www.flickr.com/photos/jean_hort/14790599647 https://vimeo.com/218922017 https://www.flickr.com/photos/pachytime/2967413645 http://tinyurl.com/y3cs7rlf http://tinyurl.com/yxs38smo http://tinyurl.com/y37p7wgn http://tinyurl.com/y4yxojkd https://www.flickr.com/photos/m-a-r-t-i-n/8438466289 http://tinyurl.com/y2cor6ph https://www.flickr.com/photos/dhobern/15857541765/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/dhobern/15235249464 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portia_fimbriata_1.jpg http://tinyurl.com/y28898we https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/13200220 http://tinyurl.com/y4nunupa http://tinyurl.com/y4r4raav http://tinyurl.com/yynpq3dm http://tinyurl.com/y5ka45x5 http://tinyurl.com/y4stofve
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