According to scientists spiders can hear everything you do and say. This is a huge surprise because spiders do not have ears.
US and Israeli scientists have been monitoring spiders and testing them for sometime and they have found some alarming facts.
The researchers say that tiny hairs on the forelegs of jumping spiders – and likely others – get stimulated by vibrations in the room. This then activates an area in their brains involved with sound processing.
Previously it was believed that spiders could only detect sounds from a few centimeters away.
This amazing discovery was found by accident.
The group of scientists had been working on ways to make neural recordings from the brains of jumping spiders using tiny probes in their tiny brains.
One of the researchers crossed the room and his chair squeaked, which pinged their recording equipment.
So, they tested for distance, clapping close to the spider then farther and farther away, until they were outside the recording room five metres from the spider. Amazingly, the spider picked up the sound.
Based on everything that we know about spider this shouldn’t be possible.
It seems those sensory hairs that work up close also work over a long distance.
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thats scary!!!
Awesome news!
Cool
That’s super duper interesting
Wow… that’s super creepy :/
I going to talk to a spider and see if it hears me!
What if the spiders are listening… Right Now!?
That’s cool I always talk to the spiders in my room
wow amazing but scary
This is freaky
scary i catched a spider yesterday
I knew they could hear ages ago though, shout something in the direction of a spider and they move away!
good because I’m Spiderman!
IM never talking around spiders agian :/ :/
FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN
but scary
THATS AWESOME
Cool!
not scary
So if there’s a spider it can hear me? But I still don’t really care because spider don’t understand English (well I don’t think they can) so it doesn’t really matter if they can hear us.
did they hear me snore
wow
This news creeps me out.
scary
Do spiders actually hear you
come on everyone should know that by now it’s 2018
(who knows that stuff?!?)
It says that this was found on accident??? I don’t think so xd
ooh scary
wow why would they listen to our conversations?
I was watching a spider when I read this and told it to go away, it actually left me!
Interesting
Creeeeepy
really think so
at least they can understand us
PHEW
yesterday i found a daddy long leg in my room and talked to it. does daddy long legs hear u or is it only jumping spiders
hey who likes spiders
that is an amazing discovery
cool
I believe that they can hear you and I think that its cool but I dont know if they can actually understand you.
creepy,weird ,amazed ,shocking ,at the same time looks like there hear our conversations and secrets well to bad they can not understand English what if they dunno
i think there are some in my room right NOW
Me gonna get a spider and he will be my pet?
I think this is a very great news because i never knew that!
Um im wondriing if they can uderrstand enlish or other languge
hey i seen a spider in my house and i been talking to it i ask if we could play hide n seek and i said ‘u hide and i count’ i count up to 100 and i was done and then i found it
that is cazy
🙁 🙂
I think that is really neat.
I like MINCRAFT SPIDERS. They can understand me too?!?! DAT AWESOME!
Im moving to australia……….. Bye
cool
good
thats creapy
thats cool everything I seid to my spider he herd
nice
Nice facts about fat spiders
i like spiders
i have none brother or sister so imma go catch me a spider
amazing do they understand
thats weird
how though do they have super duper small ears
Very CREEPY!
i am now freaked out
I always thought they could……….
its cute and wierd
no, just no
stupid it is probably fake
nice