Tarantulas: The Delicate Cannibal

In one of the classes I take, we talk about REM sleep ever so often and I wondered what animals dream? REM sleep is Rapid Eye Movement that means it's sleeping. No one officially knows 100% of anything about it but there are theories like how every time the eyes move, that every image of the dream comes about like a picture. But in insects, fish and arachnids, they cannot dream. Arachnids don't have eyelids so they are unable to close their eyes but they still rest like every other animal. And there is not much information of this subject because there's so many articles about spiders going into people's mouths while asleep!!! Please stop!

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Spider's fuzz are not nearly like the hairs on our body. Our thicker hair is to keep us warm but spider's are much more finer called trichobothria and gives them a sense of sound to one tenth of a billionth meter. More solitary spiders who don't rely heavily on webs unlike more social spiders are hairier to hunt easier. You can definitely tell hair on a solitary hunting spider vs very small hair on a social. The only spider that uses their hair as an advantage is the tarantula; new world tarantulas kick off their abdomen hairs to spread into the air as a defense mechanism but is limited since they need to wait for their hair to grow back . According to people with arachnophobia, they're more afraid of hairy spiders instead of bald which shouldn't be the case since there are still many poisonous species that are bald. And like I said before in a previous post, very hairy spiders have an advantage to use their hairs as adhesives to water and allows them to float for