I think it's funny that one of the things people love about jumping spiders is that "they turn around and look at you." It's all because they want to see us clearly. Now what amazes me is that jumping spiders seem to enjoy watching video games. I have seen one watch for hours. I think they like the bright colors and movement they see on the screen. I don't think they are afraid or else they would run away like they would from a predator. Jumping spiders are some of the most amazing little creatures. ❤
Found it!! Lovely. It brought back the memory of watching a fascinating documentary about Portia. I revisited a section of it on YT today. What an amazing little beastie. I love them. I don't have any, but they're just so cute.
Jumpers are some of my FAVORITE animals on the planet. I had really bad arachnophobia for 30 years that would always end with me legitimately frozen in fear and panic. Coming across a single, random video on youtube about them completely changed my life. Over the last year, I’ve almost completely overcome my arachnophobia with 100% of the thanks going to jumpers. Once I was able to see them as cute, the fear was totally overwritten. After that first hurdle, learning everything I could about them erased the rest of my fear. Now I can’t learn enough about them! So it was awesome to find a new channel to follow that’s dedicated to posting jumping spider videos ❤
Firstly, major kudos for overcoming your anxiety and fear! Its never easy no matter what the source is! They are amazing little critters and hope you enjoy the content on the channel!
@ thank you so much!! this was an awesome video, their eyesight is one of the things I’m most interested by :) One of the coolest things i’ve learned recently is that they actually experience REM sleep, they were able to confirm this by observing sleeping spiderlings that were still translucent, allowing them a clear view of the inter workings of their eyes. They have found that while sleeping, jumpers will sometimes curl their legs at random and rapidly flick their eyes back and forth. Imagining what dreams they experience and if they’re visual like ours are is just so freaking cool. Another study tested their ability to recognize potential predators by using two small models of a large spider they would encounter in the wild, with and without eyes, and a random blob shape with and without eyes. They found the jumpers always recognized the spider model with eyes as a threat and ran away immediately, they took a bit longer to run from the spider model without eyes. They barely reacted to the shape without eyes, but took a while with the blob with eyes, moving to different angles to attempt to figure out what it was. So the inclusion of eyes seemed to indicate that jumpers view eyes as something to be cautious or curious about, rather than just a piece of the environment :)
Its an interesting observation as many animals see eyes or eye contact as a potential threat or thing to be wary of! It would make sense in jumpers too!
I think it's funny that one of the things people love about jumping spiders is that "they turn around and look at you." It's all because they want to see us clearly. Now what amazes me is that jumping spiders seem to enjoy watching video games. I have seen one watch for hours. I think they like the bright colors and movement they see on the screen. I don't think they are afraid or else they would run away like they would from a predator.
Jumping spiders are some of the most amazing little creatures. ❤
Yup! They see our movement and then want to see what’s going on clearly!
I’ve not tried them with games yet lol, interesting to hear!
So true!
Such cool little critters!
Totally!
Found it!! Lovely. It brought back the memory of watching a fascinating documentary about Portia. I revisited a section of it on YT today. What an amazing little beastie. I love them. I don't have any, but they're just so cute.
Very cute and facinating!
Jumpers are some of my FAVORITE animals on the planet. I had really bad arachnophobia for 30 years that would always end with me legitimately frozen in fear and panic. Coming across a single, random video on youtube about them completely changed my life. Over the last year, I’ve almost completely overcome my arachnophobia with 100% of the thanks going to jumpers. Once I was able to see them as cute, the fear was totally overwritten. After that first hurdle, learning everything I could about them erased the rest of my fear. Now I can’t learn enough about them! So it was awesome to find a new channel to follow that’s dedicated to posting jumping spider videos ❤
Firstly, major kudos for overcoming your anxiety and fear! Its never easy no matter what the source is!
They are amazing little critters and hope you enjoy the content on the channel!
@ thank you so much!! this was an awesome video, their eyesight is one of the things I’m most interested by :) One of the coolest things i’ve learned recently is that they actually experience REM sleep, they were able to confirm this by observing sleeping spiderlings that were still translucent, allowing them a clear view of the inter workings of their eyes. They have found that while sleeping, jumpers will sometimes curl their legs at random and rapidly flick their eyes back and forth. Imagining what dreams they experience and if they’re visual like ours are is just so freaking cool. Another study tested their ability to recognize potential predators by using two small models of a large spider they would encounter in the wild, with and without eyes, and a random blob shape with and without eyes. They found the jumpers always recognized the spider model with eyes as a threat and ran away immediately, they took a bit longer to run from the spider model without eyes. They barely reacted to the shape without eyes, but took a while with the blob with eyes, moving to different angles to attempt to figure out what it was. So the inclusion of eyes seemed to indicate that jumpers view eyes as something to be cautious or curious about, rather than just a piece of the environment :)
Its an interesting observation as many animals see eyes or eye contact as a potential threat or thing to be wary of!
It would make sense in jumpers too!