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Group of Stegodyphus sarasinorum spiders, Kuppan, India

Watch baby spiders eat their mothers alive - National Geographic
Sacrificial virgin spiders let their nieces eat them alive - New Scientist
Some female spiders sacrifice themselves for the children of others - COSMOS
Comment by Lena Grinsted to Pruitt & Goodnight 2014 Nature publication on group selection

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Chikunia bilde female with her clutch of spiderlings

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Chikunia bilde male

News from studies on Bali spiders

2013: A strange example of co-operative behaviour in arachnids
www.economist.com

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Chikunia nigra female feeding her young

: Pisaura mirabilis male and female
Photo by Maria Albo

News from behavioural studies on Pisaura mirabilis

2011. Paying for sex and ‘playing dead’ - the deceitful gift-giving spider. www.eurekalert.org

2011. 8-Legged Sex Trick? Spiders Give Worthless Gifts, Play Dead. www.liveScience.com

2011. Lying for sex, spider style.
www.Smithsonian.com

: Pisaura mirabilis male and female mating
Photo by Maria Albo

More news on the deceitful gift-giving spider - Pisaura mirabilis

'Deceitful' male spiders offer gifts and 'play dead' to woo girls on www.newstrackindia.com

Paying for sex and 'playing dead' - the deceitful gift-giving spider on www.physorg.com

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