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Portia is the name of a jumping spider in a book called "Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky, it was the winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award for science fiction book of the year in 2015. It's a great book and Portia is awesome in it :)

Then the music right on cue

Easily amused, eh?

I don't see why that's so funny. Maybe because you don't understand how smart jumping spiders are I guess. Jumping spiders are extremely smart.

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Only if you're a female.

Such an underrated comment.

I don't think spiders use apps, I think they just search the web.

@@iamdeanvega Good one.

Wow! That's one great story, Diana! Thanks! Way out west ours were smaller - about 1/4" diameter only.

@@jamesmiller4184 I moved way out west. Now I'm in Washington.

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I hope the new owners didn't kill him :O

I’m envious!

Her actual species name... Phidippus Portia

might i suggest a book called children of time.

@@fb101786 you can see how the author of COT was influenced by Attenborough when you read the book.

@@vudusid8717 Yeah it's almost exactly this scene in the book, except of course for the addition of a male and cooperation. But the description of her abilities is spot on to this.

Does anyone know what this spider is? m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-e55vZDP9FoQ.html

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Haha. Exactly.

LMAO

"I told you man" lol.

Yeah watching it flail its legs around because somebody left the door open made me laugh too. So adorable. "Nooooooo, hey, close the door!"

I was looking for a comment like this! It was all like: " D: hey thats mine! Gimme it back!"

That was funny lol

Get out of my room!

me, when my mom leaves the door to my room open

It doesn't seem like that female spider would make a good dance partner.

Yes!!! Your comment makes me happy. Arachnophobia can be overcome…I’m living proof of that. Studying them helps a lot. There’s a cute cartoon series on RU-vid about a little spider named Lucas, who was created specifically to help people overcome fear of spiders because he’s so adorable and sweet. Another thing that helped, for me, was to befriend an orb weaver spider that set up a huge web on my back porch. I named her and tossed crickets into her web. And I was sad when she passed away as winter approached.

You might wnt to check out Lucas The Spider. I'm told it helps a lot of people with their arachnophobia.

Yep. Ice been watching them to help me with mine. They are really funny and on the cuter side of the spider fam lol

@@jennodine you sound like my future self😭🤣I started my process with Lucas and I've been watching the orb weavers to help me get over it. I'm thinking about buying a tarantula to help with getting over it

thanks to your comment i hummed the theme song while she dropped down, totally perfect

Damn. Can you get me some weed?

Careful, they're cannibals :l

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Yes.

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lol- Dang I got hit with a language barrier. I kept understanding Porsche Spider ;-)

They are kind of cute. They are my favorite.

They really are. If you hold one or even stand near one you can see how it watches you and follows what you're doing. Not out of fear but out of genuine curiosity. They won't run away from us like most spiders and they seem to be extremely confident and inquisitive. Remarkable animals.

@@brendanm6921 They are strategists, hunters and even great dancers; well they have better rhythm than me.

Well developed brain

@@brendanm6921 Yes! Everything you say is true lol.

"spontaneous slap dance" LOL same here

Jumping spiders are way too cute. Crab spiders can also be quite striking. A lot of them like to hide in flowers or leaves to ambush their prey, so their natural camouflage will be patterned to blend in with their surroundings.

Ok I'm so happy to see I'm not the only slap dancer here. My horse always looks at me insane when I do my dance🤣😭🤣 hopefully we'll get over it one day

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or letting the mosquitos in

@@nurotracker6061 that isnt a bad thing for them

He's like: Hi, could you not do that!

Me too

Porsche is the homie

If your gonna spell it. At least Spell it right, It's Spyder not Spider:) it's the "Porche Spyder. "

@@swan1098 Well, then you have to spell the brand name correctly too. It's Porsche. ;) But this little 8-legged spider is actually called Portia. BBC-Earth has the name in a different video description about her. So you could say the name Portia for this spider was probably influenced by the Porsche Spyder?

I have a Portia she's a strange little girl...I can play with her its quite fun. Yeah she will only eat other spiders

Especially to a spider

- Mum, where’s dad? - Er, dunno, why ask me?

lol :D maybe she didn't like his dance

Hey, quick reminder, don't get married.

He wanted kids so he's getting his wish

Right? Corpses littering the path of love is kind of the ultimate red flag! 🚩

@@thunderatigervideo yeah they should bury them and not leave a mess

But that boy can Dance 🩰

The final moments of Peter Parker's life.

"damn sucks for that guy wonder what he died to"

They are incredible little engineers.

Debatable

The hunting tactics of jumping spiders are basically surprisingly similar to cats. They use stealth and pounce on their prey when they get close!

Love the furry ones that walk slowly..

I have a really close up picture of spider legs and they look a lot like cat paws. It’s adorable

Foley artists are much more important to film/video than we all appreciate.

Do you have proof they don't make these sounds?

And the acoustic guitar strings when Portia plucks at the other spider's web! Hilarious!

You should watch monster bug wars if you like extraneous sounds for spiders. You might get a good laugh 🤣

@@gojewla Thanks for the suggestion!

a lot of it is filmed in studios and staged. Like at the trapdoor spider, clip when the cricket arrives, you dont really think that a cricket decided to approach the giants with powerful lights and conveniently sit right next to the spider door, do you? Obviously they threw it in there

Yeah most nature shows are staged because they would take months to find a decent shot and it would take too much money. That’s why I stopped watching them

@ yep..most of it seem like edits

Yes & No.. great footage for us is appreciated yes but if they're being paid to .. well.. do nothing essentially other than sit there for hours on end observing & filming well then they got it made!

@ Insects will walkover anything to find food themselves, obviously that's how thy hunt in the wild. Go out into nature, if you sit still enough for long enough, nature will happen around you. Sitting in a forest, birds and insects casually passing by, sitting in rockpools and small fish swim over your feet/leg/hands. The lights won't be close to the ground, there are plenty of wildlife photographers/cinematographers that would find an ideal spot that has activity, set up their gear, camouflage if needed, point their camera and wait. But lets jut discredit them by claiming it's all faked eh? After-all, if a few are staged then that means most are, as you claim. It is a very very low percentage, if being done probably meant thy ran out of time or were unsuccessful with the in-location shots.

Whoa!! How cool

Maybe it’s the brain-body mass ratio?

Yes!! I dont have any myself but ive seen how they tilt their heads like dogs and look at thinsg from different angles! They are so smart!

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No we don’t

1. Bees 2. Spiders 3. Ants In my opinion

I was outside on my patio just hanging out and I looked down at the table and there was a jumping spider staring at me. I leaned it close and he walked up to the edge and we just made eye contact for like 15 seconds straight. Then he jumped away lol

@@itzelmontalvo6645 I don't know. Ants are pretty advanced. People used to think that they were just colony-minded, but apparently even individual ants function intelligently. They look super dumb to me, though, compared to even ordinary spiders, which seem to have a MUCH better predator avoidance reaction. But maybe ants are just brave. I don't know.

In my opinion, though, jumping spiders are behind only cephalopods and aculeate insects in terms of invertebrate advancement.

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Absolutely... And incredible photography… Average people, along with their photographic ignorance. Have become so accustomed to seeing electronic illusions, otherwise known as Computer-generated imagery. (CGI) When they actually see the real genius of true photography, there’s little understanding and appreciation for this incredible form of science. But, I guess the next generation of people are going to live in a Computer-generated imagery world, so they won’t need it. But what happens when the real thing goes extinct, and all that’s left in the world is the CGI version...?

Well, count yourself lucky then. Jumping spiders aren’t known to hurt people. Some people keep them as pets.

Why disturbing? I personally find their intelligence a beautiful thing. They are one if my favorite insects.

@@antisimanticath sorry, they're a different kind of arthropod than insects are

New research has shown that a centuries old theory is true, a tiny brain can work much more efficiently than a large brain. It's like computers, over time they get created more powerful and efficient as they become smaller.

@@naturalnashuan so your saying a spider is smarter than a human?

beth-oven

A high-level Bard

Me too! Would always make sure they left happy and healthy.

Yeah nah fuck that

I am always afraid of jumping spiders as they can get over me anytime! 😭😭😭😭

Some speices of jumping sipders in Australia will wave back at you, alot of the time when you put them back on a leaf. I always put my hand out and let them crawl on me they're so curious and come in loads of really cool colours and styles.

i saved them from my cats all the time, and they'd come back like they remembered me. then they'd have kids, and those kids would come around and act like they'd been told about me in some grand story passed down.

Yes bruh all jumping spiders are so frikn cartoon y and cute

it reminds me of ewoks from star wars

Praise the Creator, the Father of Creativity.

some clips seemed cgi

It looks more unrealistic when you see it up close

This guy is attenboro is very annoying, the accent and the puns.. sometimes i just abort

@@trexmidnite very rare statement

@@diablo4371 right! I love his narration

@@trexmidnite Imagine thinking someone's accent was annoying lol, you're of course very entitled to your opinion but you sound very uncultured. I'm guessing you haven't travelled much?

yeah....what this guy said hehe...

Very Yes

It speaks to the most primal form of human fear *--* _the fear of the unknown._

Aww thats adorable. I spotted a female zebra jumping spider on my back yard wall last summer and she kept looking at me while I was trying to get a picture of her. Such a beautiful species

They are peacock spider... Male tarantula: *_dance in shiver_* they are beautiful, _~bella_ . They are the light that guide my way to heaven, the galaxy so majestic that even I can't comprehend. They are the one that put even the brightest star on the blackest night weaved together like silk by the crescent moon flickering in shame and envy. If I by any chance die, please let those eyes be the end of me.

Oh i totally forgot about the later bit

They played porn music for the tarantulas mating!

@@trananbinhjerry6438 man it’s pretty fuck up that someone decide to put it the peacock name

Best thing i read all day

Oh good! It's not just me!

And the way they move their arms lol

Ikr 😂

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No Smashing! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IlCFgK0Ptec.html

How the heck are they getting close ups of their faces & every thing they do? Are they not real?

@@avaholloway32 camera

Have a look at Dave's little beasties ytube he's a spider breeder and he's very informative

Jumping spiders are harmless to humans, in fact they even help us hunting insects in the house.

With insects and spiders they often set up indoor habitats that they control and can film more easily.

months and months of sitting around and decades worth of film lol

@@MeJustAimy and cgi like around 1:40

@@Pedgo1986 looks like it. is it ?

They use studios

FYI the man you just referred to as "the narrator" is arguably one of the most iconic and well respected natural historians and documentary makers of all time and has had a massively active career spanning well over half a century.

Well, thanks for that!

@@itstitanium1151 No worries. I do apologise though, I apparently forgot to say in my previous comment who he actually is in case you were interested. His name's David Attenborough.

Thanks pal.

I think she was wearing contact lenses, not glasses.

and they're so helpful to us (when we don't bother them).

Who create spiders? Surely he is the greater

@@user-rg4kj6bg7t I did :)

Agreed well said

Lol

lady spider: 'Omg, he's such a good dancer, I wanna have his kids! ...but he did that one last leg kick just a little off beat, so I have to kill him, dang...'

Yeah, its only in insect world and only few insects does that

Lots of spiders are.

Jumping spiders in general are literally the cutest little fuzz balls.

Clap! Clap! Clap! 👏👏👏

Not a bug. Not an insect. An arachnid.

They are the intelligence that arachnids managed to reach until now 🥺

Look most humans I know cant build their own homes and source their own food. Their knowledge is well beyond the realm of most of the people filling the world today XD

gdblunt420 but we quickly learn how to and we can get a rough idea how already also we can do maths plan strategies much faster develop tactics use other animals to fight and philosophise

@@Cecilia-ky3uw But the theory of evolution would dictate that over time all animals and plants adapt to their environment based off of coping with predators, prey, environmental obstacles, ect. So you can say they dont use math or evolve by learning from other animals however that ideal is simply false. Not only have they learned from Hundreds if not thousands of species they have encountered over time, those that build homes show a natural talent in engineering and structural integrity. A spider can make a web able to trap creatures many times its weight. A group of beavers can stop a raging river. A group of killer whales can work in tandem while using sonar to map the environmental data in their head and instantly process how to respond to it. None of these are small feats, and though mankind can easily beat most of these achievements, the reality is it's a small number of people who accomplish these feats. Most in the modern era have trouble with basic survival is my point and I stand by it. Have a nice night though ^_^

@MY ANIMALS Male spiders naturally don't live long, long enough to mate , they die young either way.....so why not die mating?

doesnt matter; had sex.

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im suprised male spiders havent gone MGTOW

@@Roamingeast old meme but checks out 👍🏼 but yes I agree 😂

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Literally thank God for them! And for Himself! Also prayer request here!

Absolutely true and don’t forget David Attenborough, he ties everything up with a large bow

I love how it doesn't even attack the intruder it just goes mental on the door

CLOSE THE DAMN DOOR BLYAT

zeFrank1 did one video on that spider where it's a song and dance clip, it's hilarious

Found the female spider.

damn I'd like to dance for you ma😘😍

By camera obviously

they record one spider for hours of footage then an editor creates a story out of the footage.

I can imagine it takes a lot of time and dedication. They use Macro lenses which can magnify very tiny things.

@@themagicroundabout2528 ah that's awesome! Does he have website or something? wouldn't mind having a look at his work

Very carefully

Manly yes, but they like it too!

True, that is what every engineer is both happy/frustrated about. Nature is a rich pool of amazing ideas, executed perfectly and with an efficiancy we are not even close to match. But we are slowly building up. Improvements are beeing made daily.

Because a computer makes life and everything else. DNA code comes from a computer. Why do you think outer space is dark and airless. It is inside a picture tube. Big bang turns it on.

Be like Simon Cowell sitting there with a shotgun

Most human men would probably choose to die a virgin...😊

Lol, yup

The reason he gets eaten is to give energy to the female that allows her to produce and lay eggs

@@legion999 See, why he gotta go through all of that though? Can’t the man just get some good action jackson, make babies, and slide off? Damn! Lol

@@levianthony3944 they die really soon after anyways, might as well give some extra nutrition to it's children

@@leodai7167 Yea but I'm sure he doesn't exactly know that though. It's not like he goes "damn, I knew I shouldn't have smashed that girl, now I'm going to die soon" 😂