But I can show a couple videos!
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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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I think in nature, they would usually be able to get away...& in some Schiz species like crassipes, the males are not much smaller
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Do you happen to recall what kind of video system was used? I thing at
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Yeah, I modded a couple web cams (removed the IR filter) to be night vision. They're hooked up to desktop Mac
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We have a top view & side view for all trials, synchronized w/ CaptureSync by
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huh?
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