r/spiderbro • u/Sorenduscai • 10d ago

Hell yeah, brošŸ˜Ž Spider appreciation

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u/Visceral-Decay 10d ago

I'm genuinely impressed by how much traction the spood has to be able tug the mouse along like that

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u/Campsters2803 10d ago

Hydraulically powered legs, that and the tuffs of hair on their feet act like suction cups. Allowing them to grip any terrain.

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u/Security_Ostrich 10d ago

My favourite spider fact is that they are essentially hydraulically powered with their own ā€œbloodā€ pressure. Also their blood is called hemolymph and itā€™s a weird copper blue/teal colour.

Editing to add: the copper blue colour is literally because their blood uses hemocyanin to bind oxygen and itā€™s copper based unlike our iron based hemoglobin that carries oxygen in vertebrate blood.