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If It Walks Like An Ant, You Probably Wouldn't Eat It — Or So These Spiders Hope

A scientist discovers how some spiders go undercover as a less delicious species to evade predators.

Rule number one in nature: Find a way NOT to get eaten.

You can run or fight or hide--or you can look like something that tastes horrible. It appears that a type of jumping spider takes that to the extreme — it's learned to MOVE like

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