PhD student studying spider vibrations 🕷️ Uni Greifswald 🕷️ frequently thinking about animal behavior 🕷️ otherwise likely playing flute, reading books, or baking cakes 🕷️ she/her
Morgan M. Oberweiser
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New paper alert!🕷️✨
Tiny spider. Shiny abdomen. Suspiciously wiggly bum.
In our new study, we asked what abdomen bobbing in this jumping spider is really all about:
Cute? Yes. Meaningful? Let’s find out...! [1/8]
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link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-026-03745-1
Video
And, the lovely video is courtesy of Pablo Narezo Guzman at Uni Hamburg 🎥🕷️
News on the function of tremulation:
Female Pisaura mirabilis spiders are not appeased by the courtship tremulations of males - at least in our playback setup. Result of Stefan ter Haar's internship from Groningen led by
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...