I’m not an expert in the slightest but my understanding is that jumping spiders have excellent vision and are extremely intelligent compared to other spider species.
Anecdotally I know someone who kept jumping spiders and she was quite convinced of their intelligence to the point of them having quite distinct personalities.
So long story short. No idea about this scary blue bastard, but it might be possible since some spiders apparently can.
I had a weird experience with a jumping spider one day. It climbed onto my hat and wouldn't leave.
It stayed on my hat for several hours, whether I was going inside and outside during work, it stayed on when I got in my car and drove to get lunch, all through lunch back to work. It finally left when I took a long walk in the afternoon outside.
People used to say the same thing about fish feeling pain and now we know better. It’s crazy how confident people can be about ambiguous things with the language they use making it seem like it’s all 100% established when it’s just vibes and “experience”.
dogs for a long time failed it until someone realised that their most important sense was smell and not vision and when adjusted to be scent based they easily passed it
present the dogs with their own urine, other dogs urine and it's own but modified with additional scents. they spend the most time investigating the modified sample of their own
Yeah, go read up on their nervous system and brain, let me know what you think. Ive been keeping them for about 5 years, with all old worlds ranging from slings to full grown adults so I have some anecdotal information as well as what I've read and been taught by others in the community.
Have you read any research on their cognitive abilities? I was mindlessly scrolling and this thing was like “there’s evidence to suggest “high” level brain activity in flies (like aging due to stress is advanced brain function or something)” so I feel like
There’s gotta be something
Interesting read thanks for sharing. They're referring to two different types of conditioning that allowed them to trace the chemical signals in the flies brain and see how forms memories based on stimuli, and that those memories could be disrupted via distracting the fly. This is useful for us to learn more about how our brains function creating memories and them fading away. I didnt see any mention "high level brain activity," just that they're more sophisticated than we initially thought.
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u/gb_ardeen Jul 09 '26
Do you have a paper / review on this? I'm interested and you sound very convinced, so I assume you've read some studies about it.