Spiders Tune Their Webs Like A Guitar | SKUNK BEAR
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2014
- Full Story: www.npr.org/2014/06/10/3191798...
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Pluck the silk of a spiderweb and it vibrates like a guitar string, scientists say. By strumming the strands and detecting the vibrations via sensors in its legs, a spider information about meals and mates.
Spiders can change the vibrational frequency of individual silk threads - they actually tune (and pluck) their webs! It's already amazing that a creature equipped with such a small brain and limited eyesight can create complex structures -- and now this:
When I was a kid I used to play with spiders, I would grab flies or roaches and throw them in the web, that's when I noticed that they focused on the vibration. I would grab a stick and mimic the vibration. I also loved watching them build the spider web. I learned a lot. Spiders are very interesting 😊
Yeah, they keep to themselves and eat other pests. They're fine with me.
Terrific animation
This is so cool. A beautiful example on the role of acoustics in life, spiders could probably play the whole orchestra on their web.
Award for the sound effects guy
So, whenever you base your opinion on what a guitar player says, just consider the size of the brain of a spider.
Frank
Haha haha!
I now see spiders and their webs in a new light. Thanks NPR!
Spiders are amazing.
short but beautifully made!
A spider's silk is also a source of great interest!
Very informative, thank you for this video! It's odd, I was just outside the house today and a friend dared me to touch one of the spider webs outdoors. I was surprised of how sturdy it was, and I was literally able to pluck it like a rubber band!
That's so ridiculously cool.
Thank you very much for producing such a wonderful video. Science communication is a difficult task and you made it simple, enjoyable, cute and funny all in one short video. Please make more of these!!!
I loved the animated explanation, I don't like spiders but it was fun to watch this one. And of course, your straightforward way to explain it was welcomed.
As if I needed another reason to love em🕷🕸
Very cool! I plan to share this with my music teachers.
I don't even know what your channel is actually about, but you deserve a subscribe.
No matter how many times I see it the last few seconds of the video 1:02 , I just crack up
This is misleading. Tenions in the springs radial "webbings" have to be symmetrical if the web is also symmetrical across the 2 dimensions in the plane. Which means it's impossible to have different vibrations in every string.
The video IS misleading. The scientific paperwork it links to mentions not nine different frequencies on each transverse strand, but just two different frequencies, one for longitudinal (asterisk shaped) strands, and a different frequency for transverse (hexagon/stop sign shaped) strands.
This helped me appreciate spiders a little bit more, but the next time I see one I'll still get scared :-(
That is truly awesome. Nature has detail no matter how far down you look.
really awesome
If you liked that, you should watch the puffer fish build an underwater fractal to attract a mate.
Woah! That's freaking awesome!
This was just a great video! I simply love it!
Making spiders adorable, one video at a time. XD
Lovely spider!
Oh, that is SO cool!!!
love
I had no idea that's awesome.
Amazing!!
So cool.
Thank you, this was amazing hahaha
That... was too cute.
So awesome )
The more you know
Don't look now but there's a spider on your shoulder.
i don't give a shit!!!!.....as long as its playing guitar!!....and i don't want any harry Webb songs either......maybe steelers wheel.......stuck in the middle with you!!!!lol
Cute spider:)
Nice vid
So sweet🥰🦀
Spider maqam?
that's strange !!
HOW CAN SPIDER MAKE DIFFERENT FREQUENCIES ??!
Try getting a rubber band and stretching it while plucking it at the same time.
How can I translate this video into Bengali on UA-cam ?
+Kawsik Roy (কৌশিক)
You have a great softwer for this., simple, just googling boobling... ;D ;D by dude ;))
That riff at 1:11 needs to be turned into a song
0:40 spinny boi
sounds like Whitley Streiber...
alguem no portugues
I don't care if the Spider Symphony Orchestra can play the Star Spangled Banner -- THEY MUST DIE
you sound weak
@@FixedFace accurate
Geez i have more respect for spiders.I tore down a large web going across my walkway.Got ready for bed that evening, and i swear this huge spider was sitting on my nightstand staring at me . It looked exactly like the one whose web I destroyed.Scared the living crap out me.This thing was huge , it had to come into the house thru the front or rear door.How it found my room i will never know.s p o o oky stuff!!
Ha hA!
Subhaan ALLAH
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