Spider-Eating Spiders

By Robert Jackson

Despite the small size of their brain, jumping spiders in the genus Portia outwit other spiders with hunting techniques that include trial and error

Biology Animal Behavior

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July-August 1998

Volume 86, Number 4
Page 350

DOI: 10.1511/1998.31.350

In the conventional view, "intelligent" function—complex and flexible behavior, the capacity to innovate and learn—requires the large, highly developed brains of animals such as chimpanzees and dolphins.

Photograph courtesy of Robert R. Jackson.

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