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Spiders fine tune their webs like a musical instrument
Spiders use their vibrating webs almost like an external sense organ, allowing them to gather sonic information about their environment.
By: Bryan Nelson
Spiders, it turns out, are some of nature's finest musicians. Researchers from the Universities of Oxford, Strathclyde, and Sheffield have recently discovered that spider webs can be tuned to a wide range of harmonics, and that the spiders themselves are doing the tuning, reports Nature World News.
This isn't the first time that people have considered the potential of spider web as a string instrument. For instance, one violin-maker recently used webbing to spin strings for a violin. But this is the first evidence that spiders harness the musical prowess of their own webs.
This doesn't mean that arachnids everywhere are secretly hosting jam sessions and crooning spider folk ballads. Rather, it seems that spiders tune their webs in such a way to garner sensory information about their environment based on the vibrations. They are essentially using their webs like an external sense organ.
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