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【媒體報導】High-Speed Video Shows How Silk Draglines Help Jumping Spiders Steer

更新時間:2013-08-14 10:34:19 / 張貼時間:2013-08-13 08:59:55
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High-Speed Video Shows How Silk Draglines Help Jumping Spiders Steer

張貼.2013/08/13 上午 09:22:28   祕書室媒體公關組  .

                                                                                                                                      

稿源:203-8-7/wired/Brandon Keim

 

 

Previously, there were two known methods by which animals could direct travel through the air: by flapping their wings or, in the case of lizards, swinging their tails. Now there are three.

Jumping spiders use silk draglines to steer their prey-capturing leaps, researchers led by biophysicist Kai-Jung Chi of Taiwan’s National Chung Hsing University report in an August 7 paper in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

The study was conducted with Hasarius adansoni, a common jumping spider species that looks a bit like an eight-eyed koala. Chi’s team compared the gracefully targeted landings (see high-speed video) of spiders that attached draglines to their jump-off points to the tumbling crashes of silk-less individuals (see video ). The silk, which the spiders spin out rapidly as they fly through the air, likely acts as a stabilizer, with spiders presumably halting their jumps with some “internal friction brake,” the researchers conclude.

 

 

In-air stability is essential for jumping spiders, which can leap up to 50 times their body length — proportionally comparable to a human covering a football field in one leap — and adds to a considerable list of physiological feats: Jumping spiders also see in 3-D and hear with the hairs on their legs.

 

 



 

 

 


  

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