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Dana Wilde: What do spiders know, and how do they know it?
While animal instinct plays a role in behavior, spiders make choices that suggest more complex minds at work, Dana Wilde writes.
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Photo by Dana Wilde
At the end of March after the snow was gone, I was mindlessly poking around in last year’s grass at the park, when what to my wondering eyes should appear but tiny black glints of activity. I got alert. Their darting arthropodic gaits suggested they were spiders, and sure enough, when a few held still momentarily, I saw they were little wolf spiders.