Dirty Dancing, A Gallant Spider Goes All The Way ...
Come on! say I; can this be true? No animal is that dumb. So I called professor Wayne Maddison and professor Damian Elias (the two lead scientists on this paper and producers of the video) and they said, alas, this happens all the time. Jumping spiders will dance for dead ladies, freeze-dried ladies, ladies pickled in alcohol, cardboard versions of ladies with paper arms and legs, ladies that aren't their kind of spider, but both insisted the lady spider in our video, the video we just saw, that female was alive, (drugged, yes, but otherwise unharmed). She just didn't move much.
Here's the point. Male spiders (and males across the animal kingdom) will often court anything that even vaguely resembles a female. Jumping spider males are splendid lovers, but not careful choosers. Professor Elias says they don't see that well, but man, can they dance! And watching the male in our video, who moved with such grace, such ardor, such blind fervor, how could you not admire his ... his unbelievable confidence ... just a little?
Thump! Scrape! Buzz! How they make those sounds.
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