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Tropical Spiders Make Fearsome 'Puppets' of Themselves For Protection


Some spiders build delicate little nets, others colossal web megacities, and now some in Peru and the Philippines have been found sculpting giant doppelgängers out of silk, prey carcasses, and debris.

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