Zoologger: The hardest spider in the world
Stano Pekár of Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, and colleagues wanted to find out how the spiders hunted. But they proved so elusive that the team had to combine P. gibbulus data with observations of a related species, Palpimanus orientalis. Found in Israel, P. orientalis is very similar to P. gibbulus: they can be distinguished only by looking at their sex organs.
The team captured spiders in pitfall traps and by searching under stones, and kept some of them in their lab. To find out what they could hunt, they tested 92 P. gibbulus and 65 P. orientalis. In each trial they put a single spider in a Petri dish, along with a single prey spider, and observed whether the Palpimanus could catch it …. Read More at http://www.newscientist.com
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