Perception of biological motion by jumping spiders. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2021 The body of most creatures is composed of interconnected joints. During motion, the spatial location of these joints changes, but they must maintain their distances to one another, effectively moving semirigidly.
Massimo De Agrò +3 more
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A Comparative Analysis of the Camera-like Eyes of Jumping Spiders and Humans [PDF]
Vision, 2021 Among invertebrates, jumping spiders are one of the few groups whose representatives have camera-like eyes, and the only group whose representatives have fovea.
Irina P. Shepeleva
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Unintended importation of tropical jumping spiders (Salticidae) into a laboratory monkey colony via banana supply [PDF]
Primate Biology, 2020 This report describes a case of unintended importation of tropical baby jumping spiders to a laboratory monkey colony. The spiders were detected in a cocoon attached to a banana for monkey consumption.
R. Plesker, J. Berger
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Pantropical Jumping Spiders in Florida
EDIS, 2003 Jumping spiders, or salticids, are so named because they have a highly coordinated jumping ability with which they capture prey and traverse from plant to plant. Their sense of sight is extraordinary for invertebrates; they can see in color (DeVoe 1975),
Glavis B. Edwards, Jr.
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Conspicuous stripes on prey capture attention and reduce attacks by foraging jumping spiders [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2023 Many animals avoid predation using aposematic displays that pair toxic/dangerous defences with conspicuous achromatic warning patterns, such as high-contrast stripes.
Lauren Gawel +3 more
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A Note on the Depth-from-Defocus Mechanism of Jumping Spiders. [PDF]
Biomimetics (Basel), 2017 Jumping spiders are capable of estimating the distance to their prey relying only on the information from one of their main eyes. Recently, it has been shown that jumping spiders perform this estimation based on image defocus cues.
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Predator mimicry: metalmark moths mimic their jumping spider predators. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2006 Cases of mimicry provide many of the nature's most convincing examples of natural selection. Here we report evidence for a case of predator mimicry in which metalmark moths in the genus Brenthia mimic jumping spiders, one of their predators.
Jadranka Rota, David L Wagner
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Novel decorating behaviour of silk retreats in a challenging habitat [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Many ecological interactions of spiders with their potential prey and predators are affected by the visibility of their bodies and silk, especially in habitats with lower structural complexity that expose spiders. For instance, the surface of tree trunks
Alfonso Aceves-Aparicio +4 more
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The Brushed Jumping Spiders (Araneae, Salticidae, Jotus L. Koch, 1881) from Eastern Australia [PDF]
Evolutionary Systematics, 2019 The Australian fauna of Jumping spiders (family Salticidae) is highly diverse and includes iconic lineages such as the peacock spiders (genus Maratus Karsch, 1878) that are well-known for their vibrant colours and fascinating behaviours.
Barbara C. Baehr +2 more
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Visual prey categorization by a generalist jumping spider
The European Zoological Journal, 2022 The majority of jumping spiders are visual hunters that capture a wide range of prey. While they are known to use specific predatory techniques against different prey, their prey identification mechanisms are poorly understood.
Maciej Bartos
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