There is a spider that hunts other spider species and uses chirps to identify its own species so they don’t attack their own kind. A sort of spider shibboleth.
Since there aren’t any spider scientists present, I’ll take a stab at it:
This is probably some kind of bullshit oversimplification. There was probably like one study by some professor who loves LSD and spiders at a small rural college in New Zealand who published a paper in Spider Science Journal. And it’s not singing so much as some very complex and scientific spider stuff that I won’t bore you with.
Hopefully I’m just cynical and wrong and there’s a little spider Pavarotti out there.
That pretty much hits the nail on the head. Most of this X does “human like™️” stuff Y is anthropomorphism par excellence. Usually some form of instinctual behaviour or even simple results of basic physiological processes are compared to stuff that humans do as a high level cognitive process (singing, talking, etc.) so that it generates clicks and draws attention.
This paints a completely wrong picture of animal (or even plant) behaviour, spreads misinformation and overshadows the actually interesting scientific discoveries.
Hol’up. Spiders sing.
There is a spider that hunts other spider species and uses chirps to identify its own species so they don’t attack their own kind. A sort of spider shibboleth.
https://www.insidescience.org/news/brief-spiders-sing-avoid-becoming-supper
A shelobbeth if you will
You bastard, who are you?!
Chirp chirp
Shelobbourne!?
It’s more like beatboxing or drumming, in the case of the jumping spider.
Since there aren’t any spider scientists present, I’ll take a stab at it:
This is probably some kind of bullshit oversimplification. There was probably like one study by some professor who loves LSD and spiders at a small rural college in New Zealand who published a paper in Spider Science Journal. And it’s not singing so much as some very complex and scientific spider stuff that I won’t bore you with.
Hopefully I’m just cynical and wrong and there’s a little spider Pavarotti out there.
Wrong community to be cynical in.
Nice job invoking Betteridge’s Law.
That pretty much hits the nail on the head. Most of this X does “human like™️” stuff Y is anthropomorphism par excellence. Usually some form of instinctual behaviour or even simple results of basic physiological processes are compared to stuff that humans do as a high level cognitive process (singing, talking, etc.) so that it generates clicks and draws attention.
This paints a completely wrong picture of animal (or even plant) behaviour, spreads misinformation and overshadows the actually interesting scientific discoveries.
You’re FUN!