One, I think, for Julia. Meet Maratus volans, the jumping, strutting Australian peacock spider. Filmed by Jürgen Otto.
“To get the female’s attention, he waves his legs.” Things heat up around 2:40. Via MetaFilter. Related, this and this.
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The narration is brilliant.
"But wait. There's more."
Posted by: Anna | April 15, 2011 at 09:54
The full-on ‘hey, baby’ routine, around 3:20, reminded me of Dr Zoidberg’s apology dance.
Posted by: David | April 15, 2011 at 10:00
They are the most extraordinarily cute spiders! :)
And that display reminds me of those of a lot of those used by different species of birds of paradise...
Posted by: JuliaM | April 15, 2011 at 10:09
Julia,
Check out this guy (15 seconds in).
Posted by: Anna | April 15, 2011 at 10:36
To get the female’s attention, he waves his legs.
That works on my wife too.
Posted by: rjmadden | April 15, 2011 at 14:16
Yes, but does he honor her intuition about healing the Earth?
Posted by: Retardo | April 15, 2011 at 14:18
“That works on my wife too.”
That’s all well and good but can you vibrate your abdominal flaps?
Posted by: David | April 15, 2011 at 14:24
That’s all well and good but can you vibrate your abdominal flaps?
I don't even know where those are. Do love handles count?
Posted by: rjmadden | April 15, 2011 at 14:27
It was just lacking a bit of strutting disco music...
Posted by: AC1 | April 15, 2011 at 15:47
“Do love handles count?”
Hard to say. You could always give it a try. But if you end up sleeping on the couch you may want to rethink your wooing strategy.
Posted by: David | April 15, 2011 at 16:04
He dances in front of the female quickly shaking his legs...
Wonderful!
Posted by: arachnophile | April 19, 2011 at 16:35