Spider's Webs on 32 Various Chemicals - NASA TEST

ryancreek

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Although it is off topic and has nothing to do with tarantulas, that's actually very interesting to see what they do under the influence of various psychotropics. Also, there is a forum for true spiders.
 

kylestl

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guys watch the video, this is a joke. Like the crack spider that though buidling webs was fo' suckas
 

Sonya

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The video is a joke, but the story behind it, is not. The German zoologist H.M. Peters made some experiments in 1948. He gave different stimulants ( amphetamine) for his garaden spiders. The goal was to got them build webs earlier than between 2 am and 5 am. The drug didn't yield the desired effect and the spiders still built their webs at usual hours BUT the web sturcture was altered. So Peters tested some another drugs like caffeine, mescaline and strychnine and found out that certain drugs produced specific effects.

(Source: Rainer F.Foelix - Biology of spiders)
 

Great Basin Ben

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I wonder if the Marijuana Spider stopped halfway through, because he had a serious case of the munchies that he had to go take care of???:}
 
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