Comments on: Cute Little Jumping Spiders

By: Ivi

Ivi — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:46:06 +0000

I can’t believe that Dave Student has such an ignorant Biology teacher. This teacher either knows he’s wrong but wants to use a mythological approach about our fear of the spiders, or he really is ignorant by nature…
I wanted to know if the first spider was a fake one, ’cause i’ve seen many jumpy spiders and I’ve never found one as cute as this one.

By: Caska

Caska — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:16:07 +0000

I think the first one is the scariest; kind of like “look at how cute i am, come play with me, I don’t bite, I promise”. If spiders evolved to look cute to humans, I would be extremely scared that they are now super intelligent beings, and hunting us; my two least favorite traits in non-humans. One or the other is fine, but not both.

By: JoseB

JoseB — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:09:50 +0000

@DaveStudent:

Your *biology* teacher said that humans ran from dinosaurs and that is why we have mythology about dragons??!!

Dinosaurs died out ~65,000,000 years ago. The first arguably humanoid ancestors of Homo Sapiens appeared ~1,000,000 years ago.

Dinosaurs and hominids *never* had a chance to interact!! No biology teacher worth his or her salt would say something like what yours did!

By: sharron

sharron — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:47:39 +0000

They are still spiders! And they jump reeee-a-a-a-l-l-l-l-y far & really fa——st( Now where did that @$*&) go!!!! Instant death if I think I can get them the first time!!!!! Orb weavers have a better chance with me!!!!!

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:01:22 +0000

the 1st one was cute but the rest … not so much..

also the rest of the eyes on the 1st spider are on top of his head. look closely you can just barely see them.