Small spiders are just as good at spinning webs as large ones. But why is that? Scientists point to the fact that tiny spiders have relatively giant brains! They're so big, in fact, that their brains spill into their bodies--even into their legs! The smaller the spider, the larger its brain is relative to the rest of its body. Scientists think that web-spinning might be one reason for spiders to have such large brains.
Learn more about this spider study on National Geographic News.
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Wow.
WOW! THAT IS SO AWESOME! maybe they could train spiders to do 2+2, since they have brains!
this is weird
That is nasty I hate Spiders yuck yuck yuck!
Yuck but cool.
WOW!!!
I wish i had a brain that big!
this is all really interesting, because that can lead scientists to mabye see if we can like train them to do cool tricks and stuff!
also this could lead them to further studys!!!
ooh yeah and mabye they can, (with a brain that big!) recignize faces! like the recent discovery wasps can!
but again wasps are insects and spiders are arachnids.
barnowl24601
if they would be smart enough for us to teach them stuff then what really would we teach them?
weird but intresting