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RE: virus: Vampire Spider Found
« on: 2005-10-30 12:12:42 » |
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[Blunderov] "Attack of the Killer Vampire Spiders", the soon to be expected
movie, will no doubt feature spiders with very serviceable fangs indeed. I
foresee a gratuitous laboratory accident and a great spawning.
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http://www.atsnn.com/story/180172.html
Vampire Spider Found
Posted by: soficrow
On: Sat October, 29 2005 @ 03:55 GMT
The newly discovered East African jumping spider feeds on blood - a
ready-made nutrient-rich whole food. The spider cannot pierce skin and suck
blood directly from the source, so it attacks female mosquitoes that have
just fed. Scientists claim that "Evarcha culicivora" is the first predator
ever found that selects its prey based upon what the prey just ate.
original news source:
dsc.discovery.com
Like the character Count Dracula and his real-life vampire bat counterparts,
a small, East African jumping spider has a taste for blood, according to a
recent study.
The spider, Evarcha culicivora, lacks the ability to pierce skin and to sip
blood, so instead it feeds indirectly on blood by choosing, as its preferred
meal, female mosquitoes that have just engorged themselves with a victim's
blood.
The blood-hungry spider is the first predator ever identified that selects
its prey based upon what the prey just ate.
Heydon agrees with Nelson that spiders now probably lack the right body
parts and structure to evolve into direct bloodsuckers, but he does not
completely rule this out for the distant future.
Please visit the link provided for the complete story.
This is an exciting biological discovery, and a cool predator. Efficient.
And perhaps, evidence of evolution in action.
Still, I have some difficulty with the scientists' observation that this is
"the first predator ever identified that selects its prey based upon what
the prey just ate." Surely at least one of the scientists involved in the
research must be familiar with the Stock Exchange?
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