Published November 6th, 2009
All Dressed Up for Halloween
Categorized under Animal Oddities, Videos
Posted by Otelo
Check out this video. It looks like an ant, but it’s not. It’s actually a jumping spider that has evolved to mimic the appearance of ants. It’s kind of like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, but they’re born that way.
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i did think that waz an ant
Count its legs, it has too many to be an ant. Also, it only has two body segments, the cephalothorax (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalothorax) which includes both its heads and the place where its legs attach, and the abdomen, which is the back part of its body.
Ants don’t have legs coming out from their heads.
also, if you pause it at the right moments, you can see it has more than 2 eyes
wooooaaahhhhh….swwweeeettt
I love how closely you have to look to see that it only has two body parts, since they’re shaped so differently. It’s amazing.