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Why Do Spiders Have Eight Legs?

2020/6/5
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Spiders have eight legs for survival advantages, such as the ability to drop a leg if caught by a predator, and various numbers of eyes depending on their habitat and needs.

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Why don't spiders stick to their own webs? How do spiders walk up walls and on ceilings without falling? Why do spiders have eight legs and eight eyes? How do they make webs? And silk? What's a cobweb? How do spiders eat? And why are daddy long legs called daddy long legs when they have to have a female to produce their babies?! We're talking spiders today with arachnologist Catherine Scott.

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