{"id":124821,"date":"2021-07-11T21:22:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T04:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/disco-spider-pulsates-with-color-baffling-scientists"},"modified":"2021-07-11T21:22:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T04:22:49","slug":"disco-spider-pulsates-with-color-baffling-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/disco-spider-pulsates-with-color-baffling-scientists","title":{"rendered":"Disco Spider Pulsates With Color, Baffling Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/disco-spider-pulsates-with-color-baffling-scientists3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t seen anything like it,\u201d scientist says of the flashy arachnid from Asia.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cPeople love to jump to conclusions what such a behavior is good for,\u201d such as attracting prey or deterring predators, says Rainer Foelix, author of the book <a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/biology-of-spiders-9780199734825?cc=us&lang=en&\">Biology of Spiders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather than to speculate, it would be better to study this phenomenon scientifically,\u201d Foelix says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t seen anything like it,\u201d adds <a href=\"https:\/\/entomology.cals.cornell.edu\/people\/linda-rayor\">Linda Rayor<\/a>, a spider biologist at Cornell University. \u201cReally, it is bizarre and interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t seen anything like it,\u201d scientist says of the flashy arachnid from Asia. \u201cPeople love to jump to conclusions what such a behavior is good for,\u201d such as attracting prey or deterring predators, says Rainer Foelix, author of the book Biology of Spiders. \u201cRather than to speculate, it would be better to study this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}