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by solox3 4924 days ago
More likely the case is it knows what its mother looks like.
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What? it's not a "yo mama" joke. Many species of spiders show parental care: http://i.imgur.com/Ayrsv.jpg
So it turns out iPads make for dangerous projectiles. Let this be a fair warning to others.
Apparently spiders aren't the only ones with a long history of evolved behavior; before I even recognized what I was looking at, I had an immediate "WTF?!?!?!?!" fight or flight response to that fascinating image of a mother spider with many tiny spiders on its back.