200 yard spider web - possible speciation event?
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnO_QAqq8W8

Bizzare, spider behaviour is basically all preprogrammed right?

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Wow this is pretty awesome. Dare I say swarm intelligence at its finest?

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That's the scariest thing I have seen in a while. Even though I consider myself an environmentalist I would seriously think about burning that forest to the ground the save humanity for being over-run by a race of super spiders who are obviously planning to enslave us.

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That's the scariest thing I have seen in a while. Even though I consider myself an environmentalist I would seriously think about burning that forest to the ground the save humanity for being over-run by a race of super spiders who are obviously planning to enslave us.

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Spiders are a man's friend. They are making this web to catch human-sized bugs.

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Absolutely bizarre. Reminds me of birds hunkering down for a storm like they know something before humans do.

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LOL at this quote:

"...It's a surprising level of cooperation (by the spiders), that even has insect experts scratching their heads."

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very cool link, thanks.