I love these stories about animal intelligence.
It is long overdue. Human narcissism is a blindness and hubris that is no end of trouble.
On Tuesday I said goodbye to my old lady, Little Miss. I found her in our barn back in early June, she could hardly move and she was covered with dust. I brought her inside and gave her a mixture of honey water, which gave her much needed energy. She was already elderly, so I did my best to give her a good life, and I think she had just what any jumping spider could dream of. A nice cozy home, a sunny window to bask, plenty of food and water. I got pretty attached to her! Only last week I took a nap on my bed with sun shining into my room, and Little Miss wandered around a bit on my sweater, and made herself cozy in a nice sunny spot. We had a nice nap. She had gotten to the point where she did not want to crawl off of my hand back into her terrarium, so I made it so that last week was a special one. She spent her last day on the top of her oak leaf, her favourite sunbasking spot.I write all this out too, because many people are afraid of spiders. I’m happy that I gave this spider a good life, and there is a certain joy in caring for elderly spiders. I hope this, and the video of Little Miss reaching for her honey water treat helps someone love spiders a little more.
Location: Sacramento, CA
Either coincidence or Facebook algorithms monitoring my every move popped up this spider bit. I never saw spider related stuff in my feed before so likely a creepy example of Facebook’s reach. Anyway, I was really surprised people are caring for geriatric wild spiders. What next? I never would have guessed it. Note: The pic is a still shot of the video of him feeding it.
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Also, whale lingo is being parsed by AI. I wondered how long it would be before that happened.
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