At the beginning of each day of filming, they measured the size of the spider, the size of the web decoration, and the size of nearby bird droppings. In both the visual tests and observations in ...

Although scientists have known about this practice for some time, researchers have only just discovered the reasons why the spider ... against its decoration resemble bird droppings, and it ...

Orb-web spiders like this juvenile female Cyclosa ginnaga use their body color and web decorations to masquerade as bird droppings ... more likely to attack a spider when only it's decoration ...

The orb-web spider's silver body and the white, silken, disclike decoration on its web give it an uncanny resemblance to bird droppings. The spiders may use this disguise to avoid being captured ...