And now, for my next impression... Jesse Owens.

They'll think it's the real spider, but we'll know it's the fake spider!

This town is full of dummies!

I used to love when my old pet tarantula would shed it's skin. I would take it into the office and leave it on co-workers desk and listen for the freak out.

C. mulmeinensis. Nature's attention whore.

The spider is a n*DONG*r!

I wonder if it sets up a fake toll station to delay its predators.



/Someone's gotta go back and git a shiat-load of dimes!!!

UberDave: I wonder if it sets up a fake toll station to delay its predators.



/Someone's gotta go back and git a shiat-load of dimes gnats!!!

FTFTSpider

FTA(fixed) "The spider may be the first second example of an animal building a life-size replica of its own body."

The first being humans of course.

And since no one has started the spider thread right...



You're welcome.

Mrs B.J. Smegma of 13, The Crescent, Belmont, agrees with this spider.

Damn. I really wanted the headline to be true.

/Wouldn't be the first time they named an insect like that...

such as the peppered moth evolving motley wings that blend into tree bark

They make it sound as though evolution was a choice. Like the moths one day came up with a brilliant idea to outwit predators.

No... evolution is not intelligent at all it's adaptation through the death of the weaker species.

If animals could choose to evolve there would be no death or disease.

Yes, but can it build a hammock

Zed-ex: such as the peppered moth evolving motley wings that blend into tree bark

They make it sound as though evolution was a choice. Like the moths one day came up with a brilliant idea to outwit predators.

No... evolution is not intelligent at all it's adaptation through the death of the weaker species.

If animals could choose to evolve there would be no death or disease.

Pfffft, everybody knows that God made them that way because He's a big fan of irony. Nothing "evolved", He simply liked creating one creature who eats another, then making that other creature hard to find so He could watch the hijinks that ensue! It's like His very own Benny Hill show!

/How am I doing?
//I thought it was funny...

Kuroshin: Pfffft, everybody knows that God made them that way because He's a big fan of irony. Nothing "evolved", He simply liked creating one creature who eats another, then making that other creature hard to find so He could watch the hijinks that ensue! It's like His very own Benny Hill show!

/How am I doing?
//I thought it was funny.

Imagining god doing that to Yakkity sax is amusing, to say the least.

Decoy spider is only pawn in game of life.

The spider may be the first example of an animal building a life-size replica of its own body.

Oh really?

Bart, why aren't you in class?

I am. *points to dummy of himself reading a book* Little something I whipped up in shop, mostly latex.

/I'm in deep blank

Apparently this is a much more useful survival trait than being able to spell "Some Pig."

We'll take the ni**ers and the chinks, but we DON'T WANT THE IRISH!

This is exactly why I bring a real-doll with me every time I go camping.

/seriously

"..The spider may be the first example of an animal building a life-size replica of its own body..."

That's a really lazy understatement.

It's more like the first example of an animal creating an artistic depiction from scratch, period.

garyg: "..The spider may be the first example of an animal building a life-size replica of its own body..."

That's a really lazy understatement.

It's more like the first example of an animal creating an artistic depiction from scratch, period.

I'll just leave this here...

The Crack Spider makes the alcoholic spider build him a decoy Crack House...

Link (new window)

meat0918: FTA(fixed) "The spider may be the first second example of an animal building a life-size replica of its own body."

The first being humans of course.

And ducks!

Also after making a life size replica the first time a creature has uttered, "There's no way my abdomen is that big! Maybe I'll cut down the late snacks and take a couple spins around the web before spinning my self in at night."
"Honey, I'm not really that fat am I? Are you listening to me? You can't hide under that newspaper and ignore me!!! Am I fat? YOU THINK I'M FAT DON'T YOU?!? WELL I'VE SEEN YOU CHECKING OUT THAT BLACK WIDOW TWO BRANCHES UP SO WHY DON'T YOU JUST GO CLING WITH HER! SEE HOW THAT GOES MR. I THINK MY DEVOTED WIFE IS TOO FAT FOR HIM!!!"

\and on and on

not impressed

meat0918: FTA(fixed) "The spider may be the first second example of an animal building a life-size replica of its own body."

The first being humans of course.

Yes but do they use theirs for sex. Wierdest Real Sex or Sexceterra I ever saw some guy who had a real doll lived at home with his mom and had a gun, samuri sword collection, and Confederate flag on the wall. Yeah if I remember correctly he had a bald head with a mullet back end.

/I wonder what his FARK handle is?
//Does he have a G.E.D. in law?

I'm terrified of Black Widows.

Oh shiat........

PJ-: I used to love when my old pet tarantula would shed it's skin. I would take it into the office and leave it on co-workers desk and listen for the freak out.

That calls for video. That is just too awesome!

has the ability to clone himself.

FTA: "The spider may be the first example of an animal building a life-size replica of its own body. ... But animals do not tend to actually build life-like replica models of themselves to act as decoys.

However, that is exactly what a species of orb spider called Cyclosa mulmeinensis does, biologists Ling Tseng and I-Min Tso of Tunghai University in Taichung, Taiwan, have discovered. "


This is the first thing I thought of...

"Zo, tell me Shehwiff, is it twue what zey zay about your people?"

meat0918: FTA(fixed) "The spider may be the first second example of an animal building a life-size replica of its own body. misrepresenting itself on the Web."

The first being humans of course.

I think those biologists are wrong.

If those pictures are really of this spider then I disagree with the finding. Those don't look like spider decoys to me, they look like bird poop decoys. I know there's a spider around where I live in the Washington DC area that actually does that...

It wraps it's finished meals up to look like bird poop and arranges them in a vertical line, so that it looks like a passing bird pooped on the web and the excrement is dripping down. If memory serves the spider then hides at the end, presumably so that prey doesn't think it sees anything sinister and might accidentally lumber into the web.

I had a few of those spiders working my garden last year. I've probably got one or two there now for all I know. Anyway, it looks almost identical to what the spider in TFA is doing, going by those pictures.

garyg: "..The spider may be the first example of an animal building a life-size replica of its own body..."

That's a really lazy understatement.

It's more like the first example of an animal creating an artistic depiction from scratch, period.

As has all ready been pointed out, humans are animals.

Ben Reilly?

Cat With Two Heads: Ben Reilly?

What you did there, I see it.

meat0918, I also immediately put divine shenanigans to the tune of Yakkety Sax.

Seriously... odds?

GeeksAreMyPeeps: meat0918: FTA(fixed) "The spider may be the first second example of an animal building a life-size replica of its own body. misrepresenting itself on the Web."

The first being humans of course.

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/no slashies
//ok but just 1
///dammit...

Donor: I'm terrified of Black Widows.

Didn't exactly come here for this, but thank you for posting her!

/met her once in an airport
//she's hot off-camera too

Jimsus: Bart, why aren't you in class?

I am. *points to dummy of himself reading a book* Little something I whipped up in shop, mostly latex.

/I'm in deep blank

Homer, when I asked you if that dummy was in order to fake your death you said "no"

\working hard for the money.

"What'll that a$$hole think of next?!?"

I feel like I should comment in this thread but I can't think of anything.

Darn shame about the actual name of the spider, subby. I liked yours much better. Hey, if Colbert can get one named after him, why the heck not Mel Brooks?