{"id":7731,"date":"2025-11-11T14:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T12:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/?p=7731"},"modified":"2025-11-11T14:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T12:14:14","slug":"tropical-spiders-craft-giant-doppelgangers-as-decoys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/linkki\/7731","title":{"rendered":"<svg class=\"svg-icon svg-icon-link\" aria-labelledby=\"title-69d7f00580127\" role=\"img\"><title id=\"title-69d7f00580127\">Link<\/title> <use href=\"#link\" xlink:href=\"#link\"><\/use> <\/svg>7731"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-basic\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-11-tropical-spiders-craft-giant-doppelgngers.html\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Tropical spiders craft giant doppelg\u00e4ngers as decoys\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 150px;\" width=\"150\" height=\"99\" src=\"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/11\/tropical-spiders-craft-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-150x999 size-150x999\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/11\/tropical-spiders-craft-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/11\/tropical-spiders-craft-1-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/11\/tropical-spiders-craft-1-768x508.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-title\">Tropical spiders craft giant doppelg\u00e4ngers as decoys<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-summary\">Researchers believe the \"decoy spider\" serves a dual purpose. It may mimic a larger predator that birds, lizards, and other enemies would prefer to avoid, while also creating a diversion, drawing an attack away from the smaller, real spider.<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14097],"tags":[10770,29727,29973,28603,30827,33002,33003,29750,31291,29344],"class_list":["post-7731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-in-english","tag-amazon","tag-arachnology","tag-australian-national-university","tag-ecology","tag-ecology-and-evolution","tag-george-olah","tag-lawrence-reeves","tag-peru","tag-philippines","tag-university-of-florida","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7733,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions\/7733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}