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Well here we are at the
first Indestructible Creatures post for 2018, this will be a regular
Tuesday post this year.
Have you heard of the
Himalayan Jumping Spider, they are just 1cm big and live way up on
Mount Everest. They are thought to live higher up than an other
animal, it is covered in thick hair and can manage for days without
food and jumps from one wind-blasted icy rock to another as
sure-footed as a mountain goat.
Even though spiders are
meat eaters there are no other animals this high up, so they feed on
dead insects such as flies and springtails that have blown up the
mountainside in the wind.
Like most spiders the
Himalayan Jumping Spider has eight legs and eight eyes but only six
of their eyes face forward, they have two eyes on the side of their
head that allow them to see behind them, what the hell.
If they are anything like the little jumping spiders we get, they'll need those back eyes to help figure out where they landed!
ReplyDeleteJumping spiders creep me out, a little more then other spiders
DeleteEvolution is a strange and wonderful thing.
ReplyDeleteThat it is
DeleteI never have heard of these creatures - and had no idea that some spider lived up in the Himalayan Mountains.
ReplyDeleteMe either but now we have
DeleteAmazing is that spider, the is always something somewhere in this world that cleans up the dead rubbish as small as those insects are.
ReplyDeleteYes indeed
DeleteFood must be awfully scare for the poor things. No wonder they need four eyes! :)
ReplyDeleteI know must be hard going at times to find food
DeleteThat spider? Yeah...that can stay up there.
ReplyDeleteAgreed
DeleteI could have happily lived the rest of my life without ever having seen that picture and knowing that spider exists.
ReplyDeleteHi Jo-Anne ... fascinating to find out about them - and no I didn't know anything about them or how high they lived ... amazing - cheers Hilary
ReplyDeleteThank you there are many amazing creatures in the world
DeleteCan you imagine having to wait for dead food to blow up to you? I'm not a huge fan of spiders in general, but the jumping ones really freak me out, because you never know which way they're going to jump!
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