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This beautiful peacock spider was only discovered two years ago, but it may just be doing its last dance.
Maratus tasmanicus. Credit: Shane Walker/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY If you notice that the small, strikingly colored spiders perform elaborate courtship dances, you may have just seen a peacock spider for the first time. New species of peacock spiders are discovered every year. There are currently 113 species. One of the newly discovered species, Maratus yanchep, is only known to occur…
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Biology
Gibbon dance provides a model for investigating the use of gestural signals in primates
A northern white gibbon at Mulhouse Zoo (left) and a female northern gibbon and children at Amsterdam Zoo (right). Credit: Miriam Lindenmayer (left). HHU/Kai R. Kasper (right) Female crested gibbons move in jerky, almost geometric patterns. Researchers from Heinrich Heine University (HHU) in Düsseldorf, Oslo, Norway, and Paris studied this remarkable movement, which is comparable to human dance. In Primates,…
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