FEMALE WOLF SPIDERS: WHAT ATTRACTS THEM TO COURTING MALES?
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Wolf spider
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Male wolf spiders wave their hairy legs at the female, as courtship gesture to excite the female spider. In one experiment—reported in the book Songs, Roars and Rituals: Communication in Birds, Mammals, and Other Animals—when researchers played back a recorded video of a male waving its hairy front legs, the female paid attention; but when researchers digitally removed the hair on the legs, the female spider was no longer interested.
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