A Danish man found a pebble outside his woodshed suspended by a spider's web after apparently being hoisted into the air during web construction
Spiders Are Using Tools! Spider Uses Web To Hoist Pebble In Denmark!
By
Teresa Thomerson in
Nature
On 4th September 2015
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#1
A Danish man shared video showing the pebble hoisted three feet off the ground by a spider's web after being used as a corner weight by the arachnid.
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#2
Nicholas Steenberg of Sonderborg posted a video to YouTube showing the pebble hanging in the air by strands of spider web outside his woodshed.
He said the spider apparently used the pebble as a corner weight for the web and it ended up hoisted into the air.
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#3
"I found a pebble at the base of this spider web that was used as a corner weight to construct the web. It was incredible to imagine how it hoisted the rock up 3 feet above the ground. This shows the amazing strength and wit that these creatures have," Steenberg wrote in the video's description.
