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The Peacock Spiders

By Brooklyn Bain

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The peacock spider comes in more then one look more like forty-four types. I only found twelve so far but it is most likely to be found in a basic brown head with a yellow tail mixed with blue , green , orange and brown. In shades of sunlight you might see purple. Its sized to be smaller then a finger nail of a human as well which helps for jumping and being unseen.

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The male actually preforms a dance with his tail to attract a female and mates with many over the whole year. Once he is done with one female he moves on to another .The Female has a choice to eat, mate with or fun from the male seeing how she is just one of many choices as the male slowly approaches her.

How it Lives

Both male and Female eatLarva , small(er) insects and dust mites.

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Where can you find one?Peacock spiders are found in warm areas like Australia, China , Madagascar (super rare) they live in any plant they can find or jump onto but the like to keep on their feet (the male) for mating or food. While the female roams on her own will.

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Jürgen Otto was the one who made them well known and helped find more about them so all the credit from this powerpoint is to him please Humans have found many types of these peacock spiders and still are today to make them known through out the world and crack their secrets to find what else these fascinating things do and how they do it.Peacock spiders aren’t known for their biting of course so they don’t do it as much as you think. But they do by chance rarely bite humans and animals but that’s because there are 2 main types of peacock spiders and its not these little guys It’s the bigger ones that are different as they sound (next slide)

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The “ Other “ KindThis peacock spider is known to bite more then the little ones, but has ten times the effect on a living creature. But you might know them as a “ Gooty Tarantula “ what can cause tons of flesh and skin loss with one bite. They are closely related to the tiny peacock spiders but one miscalled as one for their (main) looks which is the blue , yellow , black and white. What humans have done in a harmful way is just getting them mixed up period, which makes the the little guys seem like killers.

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Just like any other captivity center or scientists they keep these little things under close watch to make sure they have all the different looks and could possibly make more looks even though we already have more then enough.

GoodHumans have kept these things alive more then it could

on its own We have saved over 40 types and found over 4 in the past 3

years

BadHumans have killed them from fear of

being bit

To many have been eaten by animals like,

birds and rodents

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