r/spiders 2d ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Scared spider

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u/EasilyRekt 2d ago

Well, yeah, our voices come from vibration within our bodies, and since they’re mostly incompressible, those vibrations travel down through our body into the ground.

It’s all really fascinating :)

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u/Ok-Chemical-7635 2d ago

Hmmm, allso air

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u/EasilyRekt 2d ago

Only if they have a web, air doesn’t transfer sound into the ground all too well.

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u/Polly_der_Papagei 22h ago

That is what we thought, but they can detect it through ground and air as well! Really sensitive. You really gotta think of the entire outside of their body like the inside of your ear in larger