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by 6ren 4923 days ago
There's no need for the spider to know what itself looks like. If it builds something that increases survival/reproduction, that trait will be selected for.

  The spiders’ webs were crafted around face-height, near the trail
This makes me wonder if it was selected for stopping humans from wrecking their webs! It would explain why the decoys look like spiders, to humans.
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way too little time to evolve that behavior