tomatoely@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoTIL Earth's electric field can make spiders propel into the air and fly across entire oceanswww.pbs.orgexternal-linkmessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1355arrow-down14cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1351arrow-down1external-linkTIL Earth's electric field can make spiders propel into the air and fly across entire oceanswww.pbs.orgtomatoely@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square48fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 month agoI doubt they have the brain capacity to think of much beyond “food/mate this direction.”
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 month agoSpiders have been proven to have enough intelligence to recognize other life forms that are both much smaller, and much larger than them. This is something that most other insects fail at. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/07/harvard-study-shows-that-jumping-spiders-can-identify-biological-motion/
I doubt they have the brain capacity to think of much beyond “food/mate this direction.”
Spiders have been proven to have enough intelligence to recognize other life forms that are both much smaller, and much larger than them. This is something that most other insects fail at.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/07/harvard-study-shows-that-jumping-spiders-can-identify-biological-motion/