Great little video of an Australian spider taking down a larger ant. (Be sure to pause and go back over the attack to watch the technique better). https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/19/science/spiders-ants-hunting.html 85% capture rate! That’s closing in on dragonfly efficiency. The article closes wi…

It´s behind a paywall for me unfortunately

Try this “gift” link instead: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/19/science/spiders-ants-hunting.html?unlocked_article_code=3sVY-lIWB4sH5Fdrza4zDSNqJXfbtnmCc0_DX2xrJRV8mUKe4oYWRYrZ7QyUJmgDOVQfHK1rnJC5sfVHZMt2fhmY3CemP4fEZ25Oo7gIkSXAH7xpYwnPMiZ8Hq42glWWaHafUwon0Dj0dqQ5JZggCPSbveWxZex3rP69FeKDOO8rptONzmYEMUZZNKIg_3SOTKHHNIlhyRGsEDG87Uz76CVWiuz5KgAinWRmdjsnl1rtMtY8Y6oItpNZvdEKsHtCHPKD6SP3zLd2UdK1CBzf-FxgTaXT2YmqDSUu50GrBy-ILASj0Sz8t6zWZI-ADEDe66pMc-VErESjFb1nU-o&smid=share-url" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">This Acrobatic Hunting Trick Is Straight Out of the Spider-Verse

Thanks! Pretty cool stuff. Spiders are just amazing. For “my” spider (Stegodyphus) ants are the biggest enemy. Spider are bad ass hunters… ants going after spiders are even more bad ass … and spider going for ants…ya well, you guessed it :-D

Lol thx for that, I usually have my website settings set to block that paywall but this time it also blocked the video lollll.

[image] jgw_atx: Try this “gift” link Thanks. I keep forgetting that not everyone uses the Brave browser (which easily avoids these walls).

They’re both incredible creatures with tons of abilities and behaviours that we’re only starting to really appreciate and understand. But yeah, that was one badass takedown! And the speed, the flip, sticking the sticky, and then dancing around the ant…backwards?! Woah.

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