Baby cannibal spider gang makes web vibrate in time

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Baby cannibal spider gang makes web vibrate in time

It is like something out of a horror movie: baby spiders devour their own mother, then climb aboard her web, and make it throb in a series of pulsating vibrations.

Enjoy!  (Especially you arachnophobes!)

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The baby spiders would get hungry and search frantically for their mother...
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I'm unsure if it's just me or not but that clip is like, 2 seconds long and doesn't show anything.

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Chevalier des Poissons

QuoteBaby cannibal spider gang

That is an amazing name for a horror movie.
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Reminded me of a beating human heart. Only creepier.
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Muninn

I have to also step into the it-totally-reminds-me-of-a-heartbeat circle.  Really creepy yet completely fascinating. *shudders*

Starlequin

Dude. I want this for my Halloween avi so frelling bad.
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Spookie Monster

Thanks very much for the replies, guys!  I'm really glad that you found it interesting.

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creepy webish heartbeat, great Halloween clip Ziggy

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Acinonyx

The biologist in me wants to know whether it really works like a heart with a pace-giver that all the other little spidies follow. There must be some sort of communication to coordinate this. Fascinating!

Maybe it's somewhat like a neuronal network and the baby spiders are the neurons with their neurites extending over the threads of the web, firing in a rhythm. But even that requires some "pacemaker".

Oniya

Kind of like when a school of fish all turn the same direction?
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Acinonyx

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QuoteKind of like when a school of fish all turn the same direction?

Mmmh...I think fish follow a different principle. More of like "stay with the group".

There once was an experiment where they put a bunch of people into a big hall and gave them one requirement: Never walk alone, always stay close to other people. After a while, they ended up going in circles like a giant ant death spiral (though I think the ant death spiral is another phenomenon involving pheromones).

Ant Death Spiral

I think if you had a "predator" or something scary attack that spiral from the side a couple of times, even the humans would have quickly turned together just like a fish swarm (maybe it would take a handful of "attacks" to make everyone catch on that you'd better turn with the group because they might see something you didn't).

But maybe that's all it takes: An involuntary "spasm" by a baby spider (or five) in a good place - and all the other spidies follow. So that is sort of like a turning fish swarm.

I just really wished I understood the benefit of twitching spiders. Maybe they want to appear as one big thing rather than a bunch of little things?

Oniya

I seem to recall that the ant death spiral occurs when the pheromone trail gets obliterated, and the ants up front get turned back in a circle while looking for it.
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Acinonyx

Yup. And they spiral and spiral until they keel over dead.