As open as a peacock, the peacock spider, which dances the 'dance of love,' is a good remedy for overcoming spider fear.
If you want to overcome your fear of spiders, keeping one as a pet would be the best way.
Common spiders, with unattractive appearances, are not the best choice. Today, the editor introduces the Peacock Spider, which may change your mind, because this spider is super cute.
Peacock spiders are a species native to Australia. They are venomous, but completely harmless to humans.
They are very small, only 5 millimeters in size, about the size of a grain of rice. When they first appeared in 1878, they attracted people's attention. So far, 85 species of Peacock spiders have been discovered.
Peacock spiders also 'open their wings' like peacocks.
Peacock spiders are famous for their colorful buttocks and charming courtship dances.
As everyone knows, only male peacocks unfold their tail feathers to attract females. Peacock spiders are the same, only male Peacock spiders have this appearance, while females are relatively low-key.
When they meet their beloved girls, they will start to dance, while dancing they raise their wings and spread them. At this time, their abdomen is like a colorful Indian carpet, sometimes they move left and right, even like traffic controllers, alternating their legs to show affection.
During mating, the female is in control.
However, a male's hard work may not win the female's favor.
Scientists conducted an experiment, collecting 64 pairs of Peacock spiders, one male and one female, and then recorded their courtship process.
The study found that whether a female will successfully pair with a male depends entirely on the male's dance ability.
Of the 64 courtship dances in the experiment, only 16 were liked by females. Most females did not succumb to the male's hard work dancing, they rejected the male by quickly shaking their abdomen.
Throughout the process, the female has absolute control, she refuses if she doesn't like it, and she may even kill the male if she doesn't listen.
Finally
Peacock spiders are called the most showy spiders. Different Peacock spiders have different colors and patterns, of course, they also have different courtship dances.
Currently, the reason why female spiders are looking for certain courtship standards in the colorful patterns of male spiders, and how they initially became so dazzling, is still a mystery.
Some experts believe that it may be similar to the evolution of peacocks, a result of sexual selection.
