Spiders are Amazing Animals

Calm down Peter Parker, where not talking about spider man, where talking about animals on this blog, and what makes an animal so special and unique! This post will talk about the spider and why it's so unique! The spider has to be one of the most feared animals on the planet, yet it is so small! There are many Hollywood films depicting the spider as a blood thirsty animal on a rampage. It's exoskeleton insect that is a cold blooded animal. It's usually feared because of it's unique ability to shoot webs and hang from them. It usually captures it's pray by setting up a web from one area to another, and then when a insect flies by they will get entangled in the web and get stuck there. They mostly only easy insects with wings, so anything from a house fly to a wasp.  This is why I love them so much. Spiders are the awesome because they control the insect population and without them, we'd have cockroaches and ants, and flies all over our homes infecting us with their grossness. There are only about a dozen types of spiders thought to be poisonous and most of them live in hot regions in South Africa. The most famous spider for being venomous is the black widow.  

Here are 10 facts why the spider is such an amazing animal!

1) It's unsure just how many species of spiders there are but there are about 34,000 recorded to this day.

2) Most spiders will live for about a year.

3) Male spiders are usually a lot smaller then female spiders due to females having a womb for her eggs.

4) Male spiders are also thought to be less colourful then females. 

5) A spiders egg contains as much DNA as four humans combined.

6) A spider cannot physically die of natural causes.

7) The largest recorded spider was 8 feet long and when found it had legs which where broken due to it's own weight.

8) Approximately 2,800 years ago a group of spiders where collected in china and they still live to this day. 

9) 90% of retail clothing when purchased contain spider eggs.

10) Harvard Neurologists have discovered that an average spider's brain possesses a greater mental capacity than the world's most brilliant scientists. If their brains didn't lack a cognitive lobe, they'd be more intelligent than Einstein

Hope you enjoyed these facts and post as much as I did and I hope you realize how much of a unique animal the spider is. Please check my blog for more post's relating to animals and what makes them so unique! Enjoy and here is one last picture of a spider.