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06-03-2014, 03:21 PM
Orb-Web Spiders Evade Predators Using a Bird Poop Disguise
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Many animals camouflage themselves to avoid being eaten by predators, but few are as strange as a spider that disguises itself as bird poop.
The orb-web spider's silver body and the white, silken, disc-like decoration on its*web (http://www.livescience.com/45956-spiders-pose-as-bird-poop.html#) give it an uncanny resemblance to bird droppings. The*spiders (http://www.livescience.com/21786-spider-diversity-gallery.html) may use this*disguise*to avoid being captured by predatory wasps, researchers say.
"These predators usually will form a search image to hunt for spiders, and [they] usually will **t be interested in bird droppings," said lead study researcher I-Min Tso, a behavioral ecologist at the*National Chung-Hsin University*in Taiwan. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/03/spiders-bird-poop-camouflage/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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Many animals camouflage themselves to avoid being eaten by predators, but few are as strange as a spider that disguises itself as bird poop.
The orb-web spider's silver body and the white, silken, disc-like decoration on its*web (http://www.livescience.com/45956-spiders-pose-as-bird-poop.html#) give it an uncanny resemblance to bird droppings. The*spiders (http://www.livescience.com/21786-spider-diversity-gallery.html) may use this*disguise*to avoid being captured by predatory wasps, researchers say.
"These predators usually will form a search image to hunt for spiders, and [they] usually will **t be interested in bird droppings," said lead study researcher I-Min Tso, a behavioral ecologist at the*National Chung-Hsin University*in Taiwan. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/03/spiders-bird-poop-camouflage/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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