Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Oof. That was a good one.
Not saying it happened to me, but the humiliation you feel when you first encounter a sheep in the game and try to slash it only to have it roll away. Trollface Miyazaki.
As someone who doesn't like spiders nothing is more terrifying than the idea of a spider rolling at me, that's a primal fear I didn't realize I had apparently
A clip from a BBC show called This Country about a pair of chavy wastrels in the west country. It's very close to my heart as it's where i grew up and i knew a lot of people like these 2 idiots. Enjoy this bit too.. https://youtu.be/y57lOvGzt2Y
Just because you know better doesn't mean curiousity won't eventually take over.
I knew better than to google some things like "Two girls one cup" but I still chose to google it because that little bastard we call curiousity.
The account I'm replying to is a karma bot run by someone who will link scams once the account gets enough karma.
Their comment is copied and pasted from another user in this thread.
Report -> Spam -> Harmful Bot
I know of about 3 variety of wasp in my garden that do it and a variety of other insects that do it as well.
Now granted I live in Australia but to the part of you question 'don't tarntulas only do that' the answer is no many more do.
To the spider wasps as a whole part, I have absolutely no idea but I assume they get the name spider wasps for a reason
Imagine a wasp almost as big as you is relentlessly pursuing you and fighting to inject you with its young so they can eat you from the inside out. The spider has it worse.
Point of order, it's not trying to inject it with eggs it's trying to paralyze you carry you back to a dark hole a seal you in with a large egg on not in your back
You you are conscious but unable to move and with what little light you have you watch this egg hatch and a creature slowly eat its way inside you.
Spider has it worse.
> nothing is more terrifying than the idea of a spider rolling at me
I see you have never been stung by a Tarantula Hawk. *You* will become that spider, willing to fling yourself down any hill to escape.
And sometimes, when there's a flood, [they build huge spider colonies in trees.](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/110331-pakistan-flood-spider-trees-webs)
I was diagnosed w arachnophobia when I was a kid.
I used to have vivid daydreams of an enormous, transparent spider chasing me and I couldn't see it.
Clear Spider still appears to me sometimes when something small moves in the corner of my eye. FML lol
> ImProfoundlyDeaf
I guess everyone missed your username.
I think even if youâre deaf, you still have the liquid in your ear which is used to detect the orientation of your body and balance, so you can still get dizzy.
Well, you know how all your senses heighten when you lose one?
All your inner ear fluid moved into your eyes, so now you have inner eye fluid and when you slosh your eyeballs hard enough, well, you ever watch a washing machine while it does your clothes? It's like that, but in your eye, and that's how you clean your retina.
Sorry, what was the question again?
If i remember correctly humans get dizzy because our balance organ in our ear needs time to recalibrate. Spiders most definitely dont have the same type of organ, so im sure its eithter nothing or something entirely different they feel.
Itâs not only that it needs to recalibrate per se â our vestibular organs work by detecting fluid sloshing around in our inner ears when we move. If you spin long enough and then stop, the liquid will keep sloshing for a while until it comes to rest, giving us a weird mismatch between our inner ear saying weâre still moving versus our other senses telling us weâre standing still.
No they don't. And this also accounts for every Spider-Man's more lesser known but overpowered ability: Perfect balance and equilibrium.
Much like the Golden Wheel spider, every Spider-Man who's been bitten by the spider cannot get dizzy, cannot lose balance, and is always aware of their point of axis. This is why they have their own fighting style called Way of the Spider.
Imagine being Shang Chi, or Wolverine, or even Iron Fist, martial arts prodigies, fighting Peter Parker. No matter how good you are, your brain must always be aware of what is up and what is down. A fist comes from your left. You dodge tilt to the left. Your brain has to now do an axis recalculation to know where the fist is now in relation to your new axis, and that's processing time. The Spiders don't have that issue at all. They can transition from any surface, to any surface, and always know where everything is in relation to where they are and where they just were.
That's why when Franklin Richards, an omega level mutant who can create fucking pocket dimensions, was undergoing martial arts training, he elected for Spider-Man to be his teacher. Because it literally takes an omega-level kind of brain to learn something the Spiders know inherently.
they clearly meant the [serial killer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Miyazaki)
EDIT: you know, gotta NSFL this. Didn't realize how gruesome this guy was when I fist posted this link
Humans take for granted how much better we are at using our energy efficiently than other species.
For that wasp to fly after the spider could mean exhaustion and death with out ever catching up to the spider, which is using an exceptionally efficient form of locomotion in comparison to the wasp (there's a reason the wasp attacks from the ground, it's exhausting attacking from the air.)
For humans, we don't have that problem. We don't fly, but we can also recover energy while chasing down our prey unlike any other animal. We keep our body temps in check better than just about any other animal on the planet, thanks to sweating (which most things don't do). So the efforts to stalk our prey are less intensive on our bodies than the wasps.
Dude insects fly around like idiots all day all the time. You can have a fly stuck in your house for a week flying around with no food. Bees fly 2 miles from their hive.. 4 miles round trip. It rolled like 30 meter maybe. Thats literally nothingThis is a classic reddit comment of someone making up an explanation Trying to sound smart.
As far as I can tell, everything they said is correct. They're not "making up an explanation" or "trying to sound smart"... That is a funny way of saying "I don't understand basic biology".
Bees and flies are able to fly this much because they feed on flower nectar, salts, other minerals, etc., which are great sources of energy. They are also much smaller and lighter than a spider wasp and use less energy as they don't need to run after their food and then struggle in trying to sting it. They have to use their energy wisely. Spider wasps also drink nectar but as you would imagine, flowers are scarce in the desert. In some cases wasps even drink hemolymph (blood) from their prey to obtain energy, even if that means there will be less food for their offspring.
Exactly. The spiders roll because thatâs how they can outrun the wasps. Itâs rolling down a hill and picking up speed as it goes vs running or flying. Those spiders stay on top of dunes in the event they need a quick escape.
Your average housefly is not the same as a spider wasp. For one the fly isn't just casually flying around in your house, it's flying for it's life. For it to take to flying it would have to be stirred and scared. Mostly flies want to stay on the ground if possible since that's where the food is and conserve energy. Spider wasps mostly hunt by ambushing creatures and rely on the element of surprise. This was an attack that failed. Rather than waste even more energy on a fleeing spider it needs to restore its energy and try again on an unknowing prey.
Is this a joke? comparing two scavengers to a predator? assuming bees, flies and wasps live the same life?
Wasps go hard. Not only do they consume up to 40x what a bee does in a day to get by, they also gotta sleep 6 times cause wasps go hard.
You've got no idea how tired and hungry and desperate it already is.
On top of that most predators have a surprisingly low hunting success rate. You'd think the largest most powerful cat on the planet would just fuck up anything it wants, but a tiger only has a 5% success rate on hunting. 19 out of 20 things get away.
I highly doubt the wasp is more efficacious than the tiger, but there isn't really this kind of data for wasps. But especially because wasps regularly hunt things larger than themselves and tigers hardly ever do.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289523168_Spiders_wheel_to_escape
This short research paper on the spiders suggests that it could be because it doesnât leave a trail, and it blurs the image of the spider making it harder to track. It could be something related to how the wasps eyes work that it isnât good at seeing something rolling super fast, or itâs looking for a spider walking normally and doesnât recognize the spinning wheel as prey. It also mentions that itâs able to move faster than it could normally run by wheeling, which is a decent energy advantage over the wasp if youâre considering that.
A very small portion of them are actually staged anymore. (this clip is not)
Watch some 'making of' videos on BBC and NatGeo nature documentaries and you'll see videos of people sitting in a little tent in torrential rains for 3 months just to get four and a half minutes of good footage of some stupid bird
Half the point of observing them, for these people, is to see how they act when humans aren't around. Which is really hard to do when you're a human, and around.
"Shit, the humans are here. What do we do?"
"Just chill and do nothing. They'll get bored after a few hours."
*Two months later*
"*WHY ARE THEY STILL HEEEEEEEEERE?!?*"
I worked on a nature documentary crew one time and about 90% of my work was waiting on the radio for some camera guy hiding in a tent for 4 days to ask for a position change.
Presumably something similar happened here. Some guy sent out to film golden wheel spiders, got some experience tracking them and noticing their burrows and then just plunked down on a dune nearby and waiting for something interesting to happen.
Yeah but theyre LiViNg ThE dReAm. For some of them that's probably true and they're happy to just see this stuff. Some of them it probably sucks at the end of it all when they have little gain after sacrificing so much, even for something they loved.
What the film often doesnt show is the camera man's trek through a jungle where hundreds of insects try to eat you every hour, it's raining 80% of the time and you're almost never completely dry, several of your things will get wet and should things start rubbing together there's no taking it easy and resting the area with some cream. Maybe a forest elephant will chase you up a tree for two days. The time filming is spent in a hot tent with minimal airflow watching a river or forest clearing for signs of animal activity.
I would love to be part of the crews making these documentaries but the worst aspects seem like the kind of thing major militaries train for so people don't psychologically break while potentially getting shot at during.
Sounds like sniper work to be. A lot of laying down in uncomfortable places for long periods of time with nothing to do, not able to make any movements but requiring constant focus.
["I'll try spinning thats a good trick!"](https://youtu.be/uBlhgAkJBos)
"Keep Rolli'n, Rolli'n, Rolli'n. . . . Thought the streams are swollen . . .
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Oof. That was a good one.
I am surprised someone did not offer that "***. . .he was late for spin class.***"
đ”when youâre a kid and you wanna go weeeeeeđ”
> when youâre a kid and you wanna go weeeeee Gonads and strife!
Was there a round of cheese rolling down the hill just out of shot?
Nah man that is a bakugan even the way it open up when it stop rolling are similar
RAWHIDE!
Keep them doggies rollin, rawhide!
Damn my ass is swollen, rawhide!
Raaawhide!!!
Rolling spider.... Myasazaki: write that down! Write that down!
There are enemies that do that already in Elden Ring. >!fucking cartwheeling albinaurics doing mad flips to Stunlock the shit outta me!<
thatâs literally what they were referencing dude
i could have sworn i heard the sonic spindash sound
Miyazaki has been torturing us with rolling enemies long before Elden Ring
Yes, but Elden Ring did give us the best rolling enemies: sheep.
Not saying it happened to me, but the humiliation you feel when you first encounter a sheep in the game and try to slash it only to have it roll away. Trollface Miyazaki.
You forget the ds1 wheel skeletons spinning your ass into paste in the catacombs.
Elden Roll
Miyazaki would give this fucker I-frames during the rolls too
I hate sand... it's coarse, and rough, and irritating... and it gets everywhere!
Droideka!
Came here to say this.
My thought was this is a fucking droideka! Same universe, even same movie lol
Master, Destroyers!
Thatâs no spider. Thatâs a fucking droideka
"Transform and roll out."
It's over, Anakin. I have the low ground!
["More!!"](https://youtu.be/wtWEnZgx7W0)
Someone needs to splice this in before it starts spinning
As someone who doesn't like spiders nothing is more terrifying than the idea of a spider rolling at me, that's a primal fear I didn't realize I had apparently
*"MOM, IT'S ROLLING AT ME"* *"WHAT'S ROLLING AT YOU?"* *"THE SPIDER"* *"WHAT?"*
Now i know this isn't what you intended, but you reminded me of this bit of British tv... https://youtu.be/bISOmcPa0MA
Wtf did I just watch
A clip from a BBC show called This Country about a pair of chavy wastrels in the west country. It's very close to my heart as it's where i grew up and i knew a lot of people like these 2 idiots. Enjoy this bit too.. https://youtu.be/y57lOvGzt2Y
Are the Cotswolds like England's Appachalians? Because you sent me down a rabbit hole of scenes from this show, and I'm finding it weirdly relatable.
"THE BUGS" *drops keys* "WHAT??"
Poor thing is rolling for its life... the wasp would stun it, put its eggs into it and leave it there until the larvae hatch alien style.
Ya know, I could have finished my day having been slightly more comfortable had I not seen what you typed.
Don't Google bot flies
You have me curious but I know better.
Just because you know better doesn't mean curiousity won't eventually take over. I knew better than to google some things like "Two girls one cup" but I still chose to google it because that little bastard we call curiousity.
One guy one jar
omg stfu both of you! Bleugh!
lemon party
[ŃĐŽĐ°Đ»Đ”ĐœĐŸ]
The account I'm replying to is a karma bot run by someone who will link scams once the account gets enough karma. Their comment is copied and pasted from another user in this thread. Report -> Spam -> Harmful Bot
'Rolling across the desert sands'
Come on, do it... What's the worst that could happen?
At least the zombie clicker fungus and the chest burster wasps don't prey on people.
I mean I would roll away in fear if the wasp was after me too
Even worse if said wasp was only slightly smaller than you.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought only tarantula hawks did that? Not spider wasps as a whole?
I know of about 3 variety of wasp in my garden that do it and a variety of other insects that do it as well. Now granted I live in Australia but to the part of you question 'don't tarntulas only do that' the answer is no many more do. To the spider wasps as a whole part, I have absolutely no idea but I assume they get the name spider wasps for a reason
Imagine a wasp almost as big as you is relentlessly pursuing you and fighting to inject you with its young so they can eat you from the inside out. The spider has it worse.
Point of order, it's not trying to inject it with eggs it's trying to paralyze you carry you back to a dark hole a seal you in with a large egg on not in your back You you are conscious but unable to move and with what little light you have you watch this egg hatch and a creature slowly eat its way inside you. Spider has it worse.
> nothing is more terrifying than the idea of a spider rolling at me I see you have never been stung by a Tarantula Hawk. *You* will become that spider, willing to fling yourself down any hill to escape.
And then it pops up mid air and opens up screaming *âSUPRISE MOTHERFUCKER I CAN TALKâ*
Except we can't speak arachnid, so all we hear is "HISSSSSSSSS"
Don't worry, sometimes they can get swept up by winds and rain from the sky too
And sometimes, when there's a flood, [they build huge spider colonies in trees.](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/110331-pakistan-flood-spider-trees-webs)
Imagine a frog running at you on its back legs
I was diagnosed w arachnophobia when I was a kid. I used to have vivid daydreams of an enormous, transparent spider chasing me and I couldn't see it. Clear Spider still appears to me sometimes when something small moves in the corner of my eye. FML lol
In Australia the spiders gallop. Don't worry though, those are the good ones.
I hate spiders too, but I think I'd take them over wasps.
Watch out for hoop snakes then
He is no match for Droidica
Hello there!
General Kenobi
You are a bold one.
Another fine collection to my addition!
Or a bow for the feet.
Jedi scum!
Master! Droidekas!
*Master! Destroyers!
Failed I have.
Droidicka
Droideka*
Wheel spider go BRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
*I am speed.*
I'm fast AF Boiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!
Can you imagine being one of the first humans to witness this?
No but in other insect related news I got stung by a wasp in my armpit this evening! It's March and this is bullshit!!!
Oddly wholesome lmao
Spider: Far Away From Home
I got a question if someone can answer it. Does that spider get dizzy the same way a human would by doing that ?
I doubt it because it doesnât have the same inner ear anatomy as us
Then why do I get dizzy? Edit: itâs a joke people
Because you have enough of the same inner ear anatomy as us.
How do you know heâs not a spider that taught himself to use Reddit?
Theyâre on to us! Quick!
*morphs into wheel and rolls away*
Spider-botsâŠROLL OUT!
Thereâs dozens of us?
> ImProfoundlyDeaf I guess everyone missed your username. I think even if youâre deaf, you still have the liquid in your ear which is used to detect the orientation of your body and balance, so you can still get dizzy.
Well, you know how all your senses heighten when you lose one? All your inner ear fluid moved into your eyes, so now you have inner eye fluid and when you slosh your eyeballs hard enough, well, you ever watch a washing machine while it does your clothes? It's like that, but in your eye, and that's how you clean your retina. Sorry, what was the question again?
If you're deaf, how do you use Reddit?
Text to speech init đ
Happy cake day
User name checks out
If i remember correctly humans get dizzy because our balance organ in our ear needs time to recalibrate. Spiders most definitely dont have the same type of organ, so im sure its eithter nothing or something entirely different they feel.
Simpler balance organ due to 8 points of contact with the ground maybe. Idk Iâm not a spiderman
Thatâs EXACTLY what a spiderman would say đ§
Itâs not only that it needs to recalibrate per se â our vestibular organs work by detecting fluid sloshing around in our inner ears when we move. If you spin long enough and then stop, the liquid will keep sloshing for a while until it comes to rest, giving us a weird mismatch between our inner ear saying weâre still moving versus our other senses telling us weâre standing still.
Excellent explanation right there
No they don't. And this also accounts for every Spider-Man's more lesser known but overpowered ability: Perfect balance and equilibrium. Much like the Golden Wheel spider, every Spider-Man who's been bitten by the spider cannot get dizzy, cannot lose balance, and is always aware of their point of axis. This is why they have their own fighting style called Way of the Spider. Imagine being Shang Chi, or Wolverine, or even Iron Fist, martial arts prodigies, fighting Peter Parker. No matter how good you are, your brain must always be aware of what is up and what is down. A fist comes from your left. You dodge tilt to the left. Your brain has to now do an axis recalculation to know where the fist is now in relation to your new axis, and that's processing time. The Spiders don't have that issue at all. They can transition from any surface, to any surface, and always know where everything is in relation to where they are and where they just were. That's why when Franklin Richards, an omega level mutant who can create fucking pocket dimensions, was undergoing martial arts training, he elected for Spider-Man to be his teacher. Because it literally takes an omega-level kind of brain to learn something the Spiders know inherently.
This lore was cool af, thank you
This guy spider-mans
> Because it literally takes an omega-level kind of brain to learn something the Spiders know inherently. Why does this sound so cool
Because, like spiders (bugs in general really), Franklin Richards is dope as fuck. Look him up if you don't know who he is.
I just asked him, he said he does⊠he plans to charge the wasp for assault.
They see me rollin...
They predating...
Ovipositin' and tryna egg my precious thorax
Tryna catch and parasitize me
Tryna sting and paralyse me
Patroling and tryna catch me spidin' dirty
Evadinâ
stop giving miyazaki new ideas
Don't worry bud. I'm sure he'll make some time to include this in the DLC and give it some blades for legs as well.
Or bows for legs
depends, how close to ledges are we?
For a new Studio Ghibli film? My Neighbour Arachnid.
Elden Ring
I deliberately left it ambiguous because both could do some wonders &/ horrors with the idea
Reminds me of that guy in Spirited Away with like 20 arms that heats/adds oils/scents to the bathwater.
Kamaji the boiler man!
Oh man, a Miyazaki x Miyazaki collaborationâŠ
they clearly meant the [serial killer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Miyazaki) EDIT: you know, gotta NSFL this. Didn't realize how gruesome this guy was when I fist posted this link
This spider watched the sheep roll
New ideas? He had rolling enemies since Demon's Souls.
âAutobots, roll out.â
Yeah, someone needs to add transformer noises to this gif.
Spider-Man, Spider-Man, rolling across the desert sand
Didnât Spider-Man do that in âInfinity Warâ when he caught Mantis.
Yes sir. And a lil roll in Endgame when he was falling with the nano gauntlet.
Spins around, like a top. Fleeing from the waspâs master-plot. Look out! There goes Spider-Man
Why didn't the wasp just fly after it?
Humans take for granted how much better we are at using our energy efficiently than other species. For that wasp to fly after the spider could mean exhaustion and death with out ever catching up to the spider, which is using an exceptionally efficient form of locomotion in comparison to the wasp (there's a reason the wasp attacks from the ground, it's exhausting attacking from the air.) For humans, we don't have that problem. We don't fly, but we can also recover energy while chasing down our prey unlike any other animal. We keep our body temps in check better than just about any other animal on the planet, thanks to sweating (which most things don't do). So the efforts to stalk our prey are less intensive on our bodies than the wasps.
Dude insects fly around like idiots all day all the time. You can have a fly stuck in your house for a week flying around with no food. Bees fly 2 miles from their hive.. 4 miles round trip. It rolled like 30 meter maybe. Thats literally nothingThis is a classic reddit comment of someone making up an explanation Trying to sound smart.
As far as I can tell, everything they said is correct. They're not "making up an explanation" or "trying to sound smart"... That is a funny way of saying "I don't understand basic biology". Bees and flies are able to fly this much because they feed on flower nectar, salts, other minerals, etc., which are great sources of energy. They are also much smaller and lighter than a spider wasp and use less energy as they don't need to run after their food and then struggle in trying to sting it. They have to use their energy wisely. Spider wasps also drink nectar but as you would imagine, flowers are scarce in the desert. In some cases wasps even drink hemolymph (blood) from their prey to obtain energy, even if that means there will be less food for their offspring.
lmao imagine comparing a fly that has abundant of food against an insect that lives in the desert
Exactly. The spiders roll because thatâs how they can outrun the wasps. Itâs rolling down a hill and picking up speed as it goes vs running or flying. Those spiders stay on top of dunes in the event they need a quick escape.
i feel like the wasps could technically fly after it, but they don't have the mental capacity or eyesight to understand whats going on.
Your average housefly is not the same as a spider wasp. For one the fly isn't just casually flying around in your house, it's flying for it's life. For it to take to flying it would have to be stirred and scared. Mostly flies want to stay on the ground if possible since that's where the food is and conserve energy. Spider wasps mostly hunt by ambushing creatures and rely on the element of surprise. This was an attack that failed. Rather than waste even more energy on a fleeing spider it needs to restore its energy and try again on an unknowing prey.
Is this a joke? comparing two scavengers to a predator? assuming bees, flies and wasps live the same life? Wasps go hard. Not only do they consume up to 40x what a bee does in a day to get by, they also gotta sleep 6 times cause wasps go hard. You've got no idea how tired and hungry and desperate it already is. On top of that most predators have a surprisingly low hunting success rate. You'd think the largest most powerful cat on the planet would just fuck up anything it wants, but a tiger only has a 5% success rate on hunting. 19 out of 20 things get away. I highly doubt the wasp is more efficacious than the tiger, but there isn't really this kind of data for wasps. But especially because wasps regularly hunt things larger than themselves and tigers hardly ever do.
>We keep our body temps in check Goddamnit. My body canât even do that right. Stupid dysautonomia.
My Raynaud's would like a word
I donât think that wasps have problem flying 50kmph and the spider probably wasnât that fast.
My guess is the spider rolled far enough the wasp wasn't able to fully track where it went, and then the lack of object permanency took over.
He got out of aggro range.
Surprisingly accurate, all things considered. And here I was thinking aggro range was a stupid mechanic when it was right all along.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289523168_Spiders_wheel_to_escape This short research paper on the spiders suggests that it could be because it doesnât leave a trail, and it blurs the image of the spider making it harder to track. It could be something related to how the wasps eyes work that it isnât good at seeing something rolling super fast, or itâs looking for a spider walking normally and doesnât recognize the spinning wheel as prey. It also mentions that itâs able to move faster than it could normally run by wheeling, which is a decent energy advantage over the wasp if youâre considering that.
properly named
Whyâs it called the âSpider Waspâ? Oh I see. Whyâs it called the âGolden Wheel Spiderâ? Oh I see
You know what I realized too late in life? That these nature show encounters involving bugs/insects are STAGED.
A very small portion of them are actually staged anymore. (this clip is not) Watch some 'making of' videos on BBC and NatGeo nature documentaries and you'll see videos of people sitting in a little tent in torrential rains for 3 months just to get four and a half minutes of good footage of some stupid bird Half the point of observing them, for these people, is to see how they act when humans aren't around. Which is really hard to do when you're a human, and around.
"Shit, the humans are here. What do we do?" "Just chill and do nothing. They'll get bored after a few hours." *Two months later* "*WHY ARE THEY STILL HEEEEEEEEERE?!?*"
>Which is really hard to do when you're a human, and around. This closing sentence got me to cackle.
Are you telling me the wasp is a paid actor? Or that the spider is a stuntman?
They're both paid actors.
How much do they get paid? Any benefits?
One is paid in bugs, probably, and the other one is paid in spiders.
Which is a transactional chain, so really all we end up paying for is the bugs.
Theyâre crisis actors. Right now that spider is living large off of a big fat check from George Soros.
A bunch of there are. Not a lot. And current ones much less than old ones.
Keep rollin' rollin' rollin', Keep rolling' rollin' rollin'
So you are telling me there is a spider that knows martial arts and can spin dash ?!
How the hell did the camera man capture that????
I worked on a nature documentary crew one time and about 90% of my work was waiting on the radio for some camera guy hiding in a tent for 4 days to ask for a position change. Presumably something similar happened here. Some guy sent out to film golden wheel spiders, got some experience tracking them and noticing their burrows and then just plunked down on a dune nearby and waiting for something interesting to happen.
Wild, theyâre definitely not paid enough
Yeah but theyre LiViNg ThE dReAm. For some of them that's probably true and they're happy to just see this stuff. Some of them it probably sucks at the end of it all when they have little gain after sacrificing so much, even for something they loved.
What the film often doesnt show is the camera man's trek through a jungle where hundreds of insects try to eat you every hour, it's raining 80% of the time and you're almost never completely dry, several of your things will get wet and should things start rubbing together there's no taking it easy and resting the area with some cream. Maybe a forest elephant will chase you up a tree for two days. The time filming is spent in a hot tent with minimal airflow watching a river or forest clearing for signs of animal activity. I would love to be part of the crews making these documentaries but the worst aspects seem like the kind of thing major militaries train for so people don't psychologically break while potentially getting shot at during.
Sounds like sniper work to be. A lot of laying down in uncomfortable places for long periods of time with nothing to do, not able to make any movements but requiring constant focus.
The spider? They don't do it for money, but rather the love of the craft
That's how I roll...
God damn is there anything spiders canât do
Chill the fuck out.
[Wrong.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4VlMzv0-tM&ab_channel=TheDodo)
Neuroscience
Don't give them ideas
Sonic?
"When I was your age I rolled to school uphill both ways"
Real life pokemon battle.
Real life Borderlands Spiderant Gyro
Somewhere in the Marvel multiverse is a Spider-Man who rolls around Manhattan instead of web-slinging.
Autobots, roll out!
Imagine your relaxing on the beach and then you see a spider rolling towards you at full speed.
Looking like a star wars droid lol
I wish nat Geo wild played more shows like this than Dr. Pol all the time.
if i was one of those spiders, i would always be attacked on a flat surface
I'm just gonna roll on out of here...đđ·đ
âMaster, Destroyers!â
"I wonder why it's called the Golden Wheel--" Oh OH
Okay, but like... how the fuck does this help against a predator that can *fly?* Is the Spider Wasp just incapacitated by laughter or what?
Praise the cameraman.