There's something weird going on. As we have often remarked the press especially the BBC,is all too ready to pick up on questionable stories about animal communication yet there isa serious story to which they aren't paying much attention. I have in mind to the giant spiderweb at Lake Tawakoni express lay in Texas. The web covers hundreds of square meters. Not only was it built by hundreds of spiders who normally create isolated webs andeat each other if they get too close but entomologist Allen Dean that theybelong to twelve different families! We're talking massive inter-speciescommunication here folks and not particularly closely related species either. It is comparableto communication and collaboration between human beings (family Hominidae)and (family Hylobatidae).
Now I don't know what the size of their vocabulary is or whether they have recursion,but the fact is they are communicating and speaking for arachnophobes everywhere,I don't like it. If they keep this up pretty soon it won't just be little spidersin North Texas building a big web it ordain be armies of giant tarantulas coming to get us. evaluate of the bugs in Starship Troopers. We be a massive international research effort into spider communication alter now,so that we can put a forbid to this be. I don't experience why the BBC and other journalistshaven't raised the affright. They're probably in league with the spiders. Posted by Bill Poser at September 13. 2007 02:43 PM
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