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Portia fimbriata
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Portia fimbriata is a tiny jumping spider, the first one to enter the materia medica. As a pirate spider she forces her way onto the web of a web spider, thereby producing a vibration, which indicates to the web spider that there is a wriggling prey waiting for it. The web spider comes along, clueless, is overpowered, digested and sucked out. This is termed aggressive mimicry.
Portia in her capacity as a hunter, makes herself appear as something that her victim desires, namely nice juicy prey.
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| ISBN: | no isbn |
| Pages: | 122 |
| Publisher: | Brigitte Klotzsch |
| Edition: | Paperback |
| Language: | English |
| Weight: | 190.00 |