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Orb webs may be
beautiful but spiders
need to repair them
at least once a day

Are all spider webs the same?

There are in fact different kinds of spider web, which o en produce these. They are non-venomous spiders Cob web Triangular web

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vary depending on the species. Once you have learnt and are found almost all around the world. Funnel
menacing killers,
how to recognise the different patterns of web, you webs are created by the larger, ground-dwelling

great white
will be able to tell which type of spider made it. Orb spiders that hide away at the base of trees or beneath
sharks only kill a
small number of
webs are the stereotypical spiral-shaped spider rocks. These spider webs contain a large opening for
humans yearly
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How do earthworms
H o w do e a r t h w or m s seconds and 30 minutes. This is true,
sort of. While it is possible to render a
communicate? chicken immobile with this technique,
communicate?
it’s not exactly hypnosis as we know
U n t i l rel at i v el y re ce n t l y , ea r t hw o r m s we re co n s i d e re d t o b e it. So what is actually happening? It is
Until relatively recently, earthworms were considered to be
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communicate with each other in any meaningful way. In 2010 down, which is called ‘tonic immobility’.
a study showed that some species go against everything we It is what happens when an animal is
thought to be true. The species Eisenia fetida, was observed to absolutely convinced it is about to die;
form herds and move together. This behaviour indicated there it becomes too scared to move. It
must be some collective conscious thought or a hidden way has been noted in other animals,
and even in humans during
of communicating that we missed before. It turns out that they and even in humans during
use touch to convey meaning and form large groups to travel particularly traumatic Q. Is it true
through the soil top layer with. They even appear to follow a events. So while it may

leader, with some individuals making an executive decision appear comical to try to that fish can
for the group. The behaviour was attributed to communication hypnotise a chicken,
use tools?
rather than a type of chemical trail-based navigation because it is probably quite
separate groups of worms choose to take different paths cruel in reality. use tools?

through the same patch of test soil in order to find food le out

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