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Mating Tactics of Spiders Revealed by 50 Species Study
A Panama based husband wife team and colleagues study spider courtship across more than 50 species on five continents. They identify three main mating strategies from safe thread tied dances to web crossing and direct approach, noting some males risk life and limbs to mate while others escape via threads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N.Y
New York
Panama
New Guinea
Bertrand Krafft
University of Nancy
France
Norman I. Platnick
American Museum of Natural History
Platnick
Europe
North America
Herbert W. Levi
Harvard
Levi
Dupont
J. Wesley Burgess
North Carolina State University