Arachnophobes can unremarkably take comfort in the fact that spiders are solitary creatures . The vast majority of the almost 40,000 known arachnid species have jolly miserable societal skills , so they incline keep mostly to themselves .
But there exists a minor fistful of around two 12 species — known collectively as“social spider ” — that get on astonishingly , unsettlingly , terrifyingly well in the troupe of conspecific .
Anelosimus eximius is one such coinage . In fact , they ’re among the chummiest spiders on Earth .
In the clip feature here , David Attenborough describes how tens of thousands of A. eximius will hunt in ring to lay waste to feed hundreds of times their own size . It almost makes you nervous to see Attenborough stand so near to their World Wide Web . Where’sWilliam Shatnerwhen we need him ? [ spotted onreddit ]
https://gizmodo.com/william-shatners-dance-of-death-against-an-army-of-dea-5451292
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