{"id":64859,"date":"2018-01-24T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=64859"},"modified":"2018-01-24T11:19:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T16:19:49","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-how-do-you-do-the-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2018\/uncommon-knowledge-how-do-you-do-the-spider\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: How Do You Do \u201cThe Spider?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/dangling-spider-garden-stake?source=blog_uk_012418\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-64948 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/45896_danglingspiderEnvio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1983, the Pointer Sisters invited a would-be beau to \u201cjump for [their] love,\u201d immortalized by <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zcgxBHBsl-4\">Hugh Grant\u2019s Downing Street shimmy<\/a> in <em>Love, Actually.<\/em> Already expert jumpers, male peacock spiders decided to take it to the next level.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>These tiny Romeos really know how to bust a move\u00a0in their efforts to woo females. <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/LzGasJiqNa4\">Their courtship dances<\/a>\u2014observed in 48 different Australian species\u2014include fancy footwork, rapid vibrations, and rainbow abdomen flaps that they raise like flags. With a pair (or two) of legs on the ground, they\u2019re free to use the rest to make semaphore-like signals in hopes of making a love connection. But why are these routines so elaborate (and different from one species to the next)? Three spider watchers grappled with these questions in a <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/beheco\/article-abstract\/28\/6\/1445\/4091426?redirectedFrom=fulltext#95408491\">recent scientific paper,<\/a> concluding that it\u2019s ultimately ladies\u2019 choice: \u201c\u2026more attentive males may be more successful communicators and, in turn, more valuable mates.\u201d Human suitors take note.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/dangling-spider-garden-stake?source=blog_uk_012418\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dangling Spider Garden Stake<\/a> | $42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1983, the Pointer Sisters invited a would-be beau to \u201cjump for [their] love,\u201d immortalized by Hugh Grant\u2019s Downing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":64948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[2583,2582,813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64859"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65372,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64859\/revisions\/65372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}