What's really cool, is you can run these guys in trials in an acoustically isolated chamber, in the presence of a male or a female
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You can measure how trait means (e.g. signal rate) & correlations bw traits change across contexts!
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You can then compare phenotype network structure to try to understand broad patterns of what type of traits seem to mediate M-M vs M-F inxns
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I can't show you any networks yet--data extraction ongoing!
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Here are 2 male Schizocosa crassipes competing on filter paper that a female has laid silk on. It's pretty decisivepic.twitter.com/rByxqTXsuI
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The sound is picked up by a laser-based vibrational microphone...some pretty sweet spy stuff! :)
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And now...that movie magic you've been waiting for! Schizocosa crassipes mating! You're welcome!
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Rates of sexual cannibalism vary a lot across spiders. In these wolf spiders, males only get eaten if I leave them trapped w fems
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