More Spider Mating Rituals: Butt Drumming

To continue in the unintentional theme of bug mating rituals and to see if I can work out how to embed a video here is a cool video of a male jumping spider courting a female:

The sound is half the fun so don’t forget to turn up your speakers. It seems like it must be a part of some research project with the fancy recording set up but I’m not sure who made it. Anyway it seemed pretty cool, so I took a quick look at the literature to see what was going on.

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