Yeuph t1_iuxh174 wrote
Reply to comment by AmayaMaka5 in Do spiders always build their own webs, or do they sometimes live in a web vacated by another spider? by GoodAndBluts
Some colony spiders like the Bagheera kiplingi have pretty incredible societies - at least from a spider perspective. They even seem to have a learned culture that disappears if you remove them from their colony - in that they forget the cooperative methods they use having male spiders guard young spiderlings while mama goes for a snack; and it's not exclusive to their own children. They all just work cooperatively to make their mamosa plant host a safe place.
If you remove them from being raised around their colony they don't really exhibit the same cooperative behaviors - literally spider culture
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