by Tia Ghose, Senior
Writer | January 22, 2016 09:14am ET
Males of the human
variety may spend hours at the gym bulking up to attract the ladies, but that's
nothing compared to the efforts of a new spider species from Australia.
This little brown spider
sports a massive, paddlelike appendage on its legs that it flashes at females
to woo mates, new research has revealed.
The new spider
species, Jotus remus, can do this paddle
"peekaboo" routine for hours, all to get female spiders to accept its
advances. The paddle seems to be a way of separating the fertile females from
those that have no interest in mating, said Jürgen Otto, the biologist who
discovered the oddball spider.
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