Clever spider

With the help of small pieces of leaf, dead insects and other debris廢墟, 瓦礫, a spider in the Amazon rainforest has created a detailed replica複製品 of a spider larger than itself.

The crafty聰明的 spider is thought to be a new member of the genus種 Cyclosa, a family of spiders which has created decoys誘餌 before using spare egg sacs囊. But this new spider's sculpture雕塑 is the first to have leg-like appendages附屬物.

Phil Torres, a biologist from the Rainforest Expeditions, thinks they might have discovered a completely new species:

When you first see it, it just looks like a spider hanging in a web. It's about an inch and an half long.

As you approach接近, it kind of looks like a dead spider as well but as you approach it starts to move back and forth. There's a little spider hanging on the back of it so you'll see little pieces of leaf, little pieces of twig枝. There's even a dead insect in there.

There must be very heavy predatory掠奪性 influence that it would evolve演變 to have such an intriguing奇妙 defence防禦.

Mr Torres will be returning to the Amazon rainforest in January next year to investigate further as this masterful spider is yet to be recognised as a new species.

Mr Torres' discovery will be registered, verified and his findings published if this spider proves to be biologically different from the known species of Cyclosa.

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