Fear vs. Fascination: Exploring the Incredible Abilities of Spiders | FULL DOCUMENTARY

[@a.randomjack6661]

This is a rare yt recommendation I can happily live with. Excellent documentary. Thank you very much for the upload 👍

[@frankbrown3717]

The camera work is amazing! Close up, slow motion shots of web getting spit from a spider's fangs! That's just awesome.

[@seaofenergy2765]

Great doc, lots of really interesting and amazing things about spiders i never knew before. My only criticism would be using sound design with a creepy/scary vibe for spider scenes and then saying at the end that spiders dont deserve their reputation. I really think using a lighter/more playful style of sound design when seeing the spiders do their thing would help encourage the change you want to see (i.e freeing the spider from being generally hated/feared).

[@noahway13]

It is amazing that no matter what the obscure topic, there are people studying it in depth.

[@pdmullgirl]

When I first started watching this, I thought I’d get totally creeped out. But I found it to be very interesting and very educational. I learned quite a bit and enjoyed watching very much. Never thought I would say that about a spider documentary. Thanks! ❤️💜💚

[@angela_tarantulas]

I love all spiders, tarantulas, scorpions and other crawly little critters. They’re not monsters. Thank you for the great documentary 🎉

[@Taffy064]

My wife is absolutely terrified of spiders and would happily hoover them up. I, on the other hand am scared, but would never knowingly harm them as I remove them. I wonder why we are so scared considering that our upbringings were not influenced by our parents. even watching this documentary sends shivers down my spine. Thank goodness for people like you.

[@angela_tarantulas]

@ thank you 🍀 I think it’s some kind of an „ancient fear“ that’s programmed deep at our brains… spiders don‘t have facial features where we could see what their mood is, we can’t predict their movements … maybe that’s why arachnophobia is a thing around the whole world? Speaking for myself: I feel no fear, but respect for these creatures. Some of them could harm or even k*ll me. Where I live, there are no spiders and scorpions with significant venom. But some of my pets do have or they got some huge fangs, I don’t wanna get inside my finger joints. So, I keep a good distance, try not to stress them and watch them in their terrarium habitats. They’re all fascinating to me, with their bodies based under an exo skeleton, hemolymph instead of blood, how their lungs work, the hydraulical system of their movements… and even if it’s said, that they’re not „intelligent“ - I experience otherwise. They’re showing behavior that would give a scientist work for a lifetime 😃

[@Taffy064]

@@angela_tarantulas Thank you. I think your explanation was spot on and makes a lot of sense. I once thought about getting a jumping spider as a pet, as they are small and pretty, to get me over the fear of spiders. However, if I ever found a tarantula in the house (unlikely in England) I'd move house rather than approach it. 😊

[@mensch58306]

I wanna kiss spider cute

[@angela_tarantulas]

@@Taffy064 I can highly recommend you to keep a jumping spider as a pet! They are so cute and interact with humans. Very intelligent little creatures 🥰 I deeply understand people with arachnophobia and I always try to explain, why humans got this fear. And honestly I don’t know, why some of us got it more than others, it’s individual. But our brains function in a very „old“ and ancient way, that protected us, when we were living out in the wild… same with snakes and other possibly dangerous animals. I‘m in Switzerland, so I don’t get wild tarantulas here, too 😅 I will travel to Mexico, to see my favorite species in their natural habitats. But here at home, I just keep the terrarium doors closed 🤣 If you ever find a tarantula at your home: just put a tupperware container over it and a sturdy carton paper under. Like with a normal spider, just bigger 🤣 I move my biggest tarantulas like this 🤣

[@soupbonep]

Excellent Doc! I felt bad for the Jumping Spider that had her eyes painted over. I hope the paint wears off with no harm. Only two surviving babies per spider couple on average? That is an eye opening fact.

[@noahway13]

In my lab, I am developing a blindfold to use on spiders.

[@soupbonep]

@@noahway13 That, I would love to see. I can't imagine how it would work. Is it a safe paint that wears off?

[@quinholzken7051]

😢

[@TotalDec]

The paint, probably, just freaks them out. If you put paint on my face, I wouldn't run to McDonald's.

[@rayvanbulletantmartinez]

Thanks!

[@SLICE_Full_Doc]

Thank you so much for your support ☺ !

[@AngryKittens]

Jumping spiders are always so adorable.

[@CrystalAbrahams]

@@AngryKittens To Angry Kittens, probably. Me, not so much! 🕸🕷

[@AngryKittens]

@@CrystalAbrahams Try to think of them as tiny cats. Because that's what they are.

[@CrystalAbrahams]

@AngryKittens You're right, that helps. I'm not afraid of most spiders, but the ones who jump make me jump too!

[@lynderherberts2828]

I like jumping spiders and tarantulas.

[@aaronsimmons1562]

I like toitles

[@midnightxsquid4117]

hell yea

[@wailingalen]

Me too!! I’m “afraid” of cockroaches and bugs in general but I like tarantulas and jumping spiders and MILLIPEDES I LOVE MILLIPEDES

[@Hydrosized]

Same here my two favourites.

[@AwenyddGryffin]

Cellar spiders are also awesome. So cutesy so demure 😂

[@dijax7863]

31:55 she doesnt know what it is... OR MAYBE...Just maybe she doesnt want to eat when someone just fucking painted her eyes closed...

[@ScottPrendergast-k2m]

Paint over the eyes of A Creature that shows almost Mammalian catlike Intelligence- that’s great Ms Jakob- ever heard of TORTURE? leave these little guys alone already- everyone LOVES THEM - they are so precious and cute that even arachnophobes are in love with them- not only vision - INTELLIGENCE

[@lisamareepritchard6375]

Such a great documentary, thank you 🙏

[@jeremycortese]

This is fascinating. I have caught multiple jumpers in my back yard to document and photo for my own interest. They were released once I was complete. Each species of jumpers acted much differently than others. Some were friendly, some skiddish. All were amazing to watch.

[@prototropo]

Very impressive presentation! Thank you for the scholarly precision, sequential logic and thoroughness of information. I much prefer videos that don't avoid relevant terminology (with accurate pronunciations!) and respect the ability of viewers to repair to dictionaries or additional source information. In any case--this entire video was really interesting, with wonderful camerawork.

[@Doxymeister]

I used to work security on the night shift at our local school for the deaf, the campus was built on the side of a rather steep hill. In the spring and summer, when it got quiet at night, and all the students were tucked in their dorms, I'd sit at the base of the hill with my searchlight, looking up the hill with my light shining parallel to the ground. The hillside would be sparkling with tarantula eyes. I'm a typical girl in that most spiders I find icky, but I got so fascinated by our resident tarantulas! I discovered they love to eat crickets, and I despise crickets, so yay for tarantulas and spiders! This documentary also goes a long way to helping people lose a bit of the discomfort of being around spiders.

[@aaronmurray1744]

U probably use crickets as Fish Bait

[@jeremyyerke]

Amazing photography!

[@NeonCicada]

_"They are said to be poisonous, evil, hairy and treacherous and live all around us."_ This is *SO* relatable dude 😅 lol

[@TheHimmus]

You forgot to mention they also live on us.

[@suprlite]

Sounds like feminists :D

[@KYLERTODDSINTICH]

FYI spiders are NOT poisonous, they ARE venomous!

[@NeonCicada]

@@KYLERTODDSINTICH Technically speaking, this is very true lol

[@terryfreeman1018]

Amazing video. Great work

[@karendally1]

I hope you got the GREEN paint off of the jumping spiders eyes when you are done with your experiment. I won’t sleep all night worrying about that spider. You should have said that you did or don’t remove the paint.

[@aliensoup2420]

Good show. Highly detailed and informative. I learned much.

[@richardearnshaw2719]

I love the Australian Huntsman & jumping spider of course they are very curious and will jump onto my finger so I will take it to another stop that I've observed it often checks out first thing in MY morning.

[@drips1030]

Incredible. Thoroughly enjoyed this. Knew i would coming from SLICE!!!

[@SLICE_Full_Doc]

Thank you ! 🤗

[@michaelsinanan88]

31:00 I know the methods used to experiment are as good as we can get for now but it isn’t pleasing to see. I can imagine a world where spiders are doing this to us lol

[@Liam20005]

Ive always found it amazing how such a small thing can be so complicated

[@PaulJonas-q7p]

Amazing creatures spiders especially jumping spiders see really good great video educational and enjoyable thanks for that looking forward to your next upload

[@RBannwart71]

Thank you very much, very interesting, especially for me that has had fears of spiders in the past.

[@AngryKittens]

The close-up clips are exquisite.

[@maryhairy1]

Absolutely fascinating

[@2L8M8Basher]

I find it amazing how inteligent evolution is!!!

[@roxannemoser]

The only time I was heartbroken for the prey was when the prey is a butterfly. 😢 Edit: That's cruel af. There are other ways to study the jumping spiders eyes besides painting them. How would she like to be hunted down and her eyes painted.

[@FridayKnights.]

Wonderful Documentary.

[@carolray3637]

Excellent doc; I learned so much. THANK YOU! 🤩🥰❤🕷🕸🕷❤🥰🤩

[@atheistsince1210]

I hope all of these doctors who have the best job in the world by the way I hope they all are awarded the Nobel Prize in Biology for thier painstaking meticulous and disciplined efforts!

[@merileopardisaksassa7030]

Lovely documentary! I have to say though, the way the spiders are strapped down during research looks very funny and feels unethical lol

[@BariumCobaltNitrog3n]

Funny and unethical are the two main ingredients in the KZbin algorithm, also surprising.

[@AJ-ps2bw]

Really loving this documentary! Also... The narrator sounds like Mother from I Am Mother.

[@susanmartin3762]

That a woman is so daring to search above and below gives me goosebumps! And yet i LOVE jumping spiders!😊 Oh and then she goes into a nasty basement!😱😱😱

[@TheBlubunni]

Spiders are awesome! 🕷🕸

[@charissahanks3967]

I LOVE ALL spiders!!!!

[@setharp]

I used to hate spiders. Now I think they're really neat and do a great job keeping the bugs down.

[@markcaputo8300]

❤❤❤❤❤ 😊😊 Thanks!

[@StephenRada-q6g]

Great documentaries. I was fascinated by spiders as a young boy. As a Marine, I saw many different types overseas & in the jungle. Some as big as my hand, which i didn't like 😅

[@JamesSmith-op7yc]

J. From Michigan, Spiders are Cool! I was taught that they are our friends. Not scary at all. Beneficial and fascinating creatures. Great documentary. Thanks for sharing and by the way, if you're afraid of spiders, wasps, flys, ect... Get some chickens, no worries. 🤠

[@bernieshort6311]

Outstanding

[@calvind98362]

How in the world did they find that trap-door spider's hole with the lid on it? Amazing!!

[@greekpapi]

I have a couple of spiders living in my hallway, any bugs flying in at night when people come and go are gone by the morning!!!

[@coreydempsey4660]

lol, heck yeah

[@michaelkyriacou7026]

Adore Arachnids!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@need4speed42]

Hello!!… I’m new to your channel and I wanna say that I’m very sorry for your loss😢

[@deanwalton310]

30:00 jumping spiders segment

[@SithMami]

Spiders are so incredible. I hope that people can come to see how unobtrusive to humans they really are, let alone, how beneficial

[@peterolbrisch8970]

Well done.

[@coreydempsey4660]

Amazing creatures.

[@delphinelouisa4507]

it was so awfull to see the spider pinned down and the way he weels her precious silk out. we should not try to do shit like this. its theres, leave it alone.

[@AriVenus77]

I get where you are coming from as a spider enthusiast myself, but I feel that this kind of research is justified. The spiders are not hurt by the milking process and recover fully after. While it might look uncomfortable in the moment, this kind of research is vital for advancements that could help solve real-world problems, as well as aid in conservation and deepen our understanding of these animals and ecosystems they inhabit.

[@captainn-tgm]

​@AriVenus77 no offense, but I have to call some BS there. Most of the research on spiders, particularly on silk, has nothing to do with understanding the animals and ecosystems in terms of conservation. It's simply about money. You can learn a lot about the animals by watching their behavior without forcing them to be lab experiments. It is already well known that if you want to preserve a species and ecosystem, then force humans to leave them in peace. Companies have been trying for decades to use spiders to find ways to exploit them. The first company that figures out how to synthesize and mass produce various types of spider silk will result in trillions of dollars in profit, with application in textiles, manufacturing, construction, military, and beyond. It would be the greatest invention since the microchip

[@wailingalen]

I had no idea they recycle their webs!!!😮😮😮😊

[@sabsinoname]

Bravo 👏🏻 das nächste Tier das wir eventuell einsperren, ausbeuten und quälen könnten? 😪

[@augustusmuteb1336]

"no matter where you are, there's always a spider nearby" is crazy

[@revzombie]

I used to own a chilli rose tarantula, she was so chilled crawling on me, she loved the warmth of my palm and snuggle in, if i didn't know better i would have thought she was a reincarnated cat... So gentle, never bit me, beautiful creatures, i always leave our house spiders to run the house and keep the nastie bugs down, 😊

[@robadams5799]

12:40 - You couldn't pay me enough to walk into that spooky shed. It's giving me the heebie--SOMETHING JUST TOUCHED ME!! 16:45 - "Help meeeee!" 18:53 - How does one immobilize a spider? I'm, um . . . asking for a friend. 4344 - Ooo, look! He's introducing his pedipalps in front of everyone!

[@robadams5799]

I'm a card-carrying arachnophobe, but the narrator's gentle voice soothes me. Too there were no credits at the end.

[@giannidcenzo]

Super duper creepy cool.

[@FlaviaMartins111]

The documentary itself, apart from the horrible music, is very nice. ❤

[@dycorty9182]

14:35 I know that the cellar spider is supposed to be scary, but the spinning motion made me absolutely cackle 😆😆 are you drunk little guy?????

[@johnholmes6897]

19:40 That's just not fair! Like spiders don't have a good enough set of weapons. The spitting spider has silk coming out both ends and the silk coming out of its fangs dries and squeezes it's prey and it also has the benefit of being venomous silk as well. That's a super spider. So glad it's not huge

[@BariumCobaltNitrog3n]

"Whether from their physical appearance or their behaviour, spiders suffer a bad reputation." OK imagine a guy about a foot tall, hiding in the bushes unloading spunk into his hand. Then he slowly sneaks up on a woman eating lunch, gently fingerbangs her, leaves his gift, takes a few bites of her food and runs off, and we cheer for HIM... #casualencounter

[@noahway13]

Male spider approaches the female and does the ol' yawn and stretch move...

[@snowkracker]

I have a really cool Garden Orb Weaver that builds a new web every night. Usually in the same place but every now and then it moves a few feet away.

[@Hallenecho]

Those cellar spider must be some kind of teastfull my cats looked them up, tickled them with their whiskers until they start to spin, and then they ate them.🐱🕷

[@JWellsville]

I saw so many cool spiders in my garden they keep bad guys away

[@dustyhefner2211]

That guy is a spiders worst nightmare

[@GhettoRanger01]

What a job, sit around and play with spiders.

[@NitroModelsAndComics]

Imagine being paid for 20 years to interpret the hearing and courtship of a spider? I'm clearly in the wrong business.

[@alfiospuson7165]

Good spider

[@AngryKittens]

I live in a country where _Nephila_ spiders are native. Their silk is literally like thread.

[@victorianewborn5635]

I love this documentary HOWEVER I have a bone to pick.... this is not the original documentary, it was changed, the narrator voice is different (don't know if it's a whole different person or her voice was remastered but it sounds very different) also some scenes have changed. What happened to the original?

[@DanielAnderson-p3g]

At this point there is only in my car live in oz and can’t get it out still finds it’s way back in the dog

[@georgejetson1923]

They have pretty eyes

[@danielbailey3611]

How does it help us other than the obvious of the strength of a spider Web

[@justicewillprevail1106]

How many commercials does this needs? Every minute there's a commercial. It's obnoxious.

[@Modernnannenginemarineengine]

I have always liked spiders there like the Lions Tigers etc of the Tiny World. WOLF type hunting jumping versions are my favourite. But Amphibious water spiders are incredible. Maybe because trying to catch one in a small pond I got bitten. Pretty sore at 9yrs old inside of my finger web. I jumped up shouting look look . I soon dropped it .but no harm done. Giant diving water beetle was a painful bite. But horse Flys. Were lots worse. lol.

[@jonathansantos2271]

Small jumping spiders are Cuet toned💌

[@Modernnannenginemarineengine]

I have always liked spiders there like the Lions Tigers etc of the Tiny World. WOLF type hunting jumping versions are my favourite. But Amphibious water spiders are incredible. Maybe because trying to catch one in a small pond I got bitten. Pretty sore at 9yrs old inside of my finger web. I jumped up shouting look look . I soon dropped it .but no harm done. Giant diving water beetle was a painful bite. But horse Flys. Were lots worse. l

[@susanmartin3762]

We used tho mix corn starch and water to create "Instantly Funk". It's the coolest stuf. As long as yiu kept it moving in your hands by just moving, it was solid. The minute you stopped, it turned to liquid and spilled out of your hands. If you pour it into a bowl and slap the surface really hard, it's solid. Just let your hand relax ache it will slowly sink into the now ,liquid material.

[@susanmartin3762]

I wrote before watching it all. This demonstrates exactly what I tried describing. I should've waited till this was done. 🤪

[@edwardwilliams2438]

I thought they had no mouth parts...so how do they "eat" their own webs?? Palps/pedipalps?? Since the web is a "solid"...what is happening with fangs??? Spiders are indeed fantastic creatures.

[@juanrangel6880]

:45. Not a big Darwin dude but spiders are creepy and fascinating. They've even found them in the upper atmosphere. Now that's nuts😮

[@joshuawayneyork]

LOOK AT HER SPIDERWEB RING @ 22:10!!!

[@nunyabiznas3699]

Jumping spiders are the goats. I always puck them up and move them if I see em at work

[@StPauli57Ghetto]

Wow

[@rockeazymatt]

Please don't swallow a spider Ms. Spider Lady...

[@rogergriffin9893]

Thank God spiders don't get any bigger! Otherwise we would get eaten in horrifying ways. Aiee!!

[@batbratsdesigns]

That's not true. Spiders eat certain things because they have special functions. Even if they were giants they wouldn't eat humans because we are too bony. They liquidize their food and drink it from the inside so they like more juicy meals. They more likely would defend themselves by biting us if we threaten them but not to eat us. They don't even want to bite us because they are smart enough to understand they need their venom for hunting for food. I used to have spiders as pets and I researched them for college for my master's degree in advanced science and engineering. Spiders are masters of engineering and hunting. Some types of spiders are social and make great pets because they are like tiny cats.

[@gotmilk91]

So what happened to that jumping spider where you guys blinded with paint?

[@loganvandyk7090]

Spider drums > snake jazz

[@pattyandbustershow1031]

Daddy long legs isn't a spider, though it is an arachnid

[@TheSlayer71782]

Am I the only person that felt bad for the poor little jumping spider that they painted her front eye balls in the name of science... smh. I know it happens all the time in experiments but hurting harmless creatures is not something I do.

[@ricardoarrieta5762]

Yes jumping spiders are smart beautiful and liston I had a few and were so happy well and content actually would come out for breakfast and chill to night and eat maybe depending on their breakfast but so adorable but die so so soon like shairlets web I will not fall on love with a nother bug they are intelligent friends and love little tiny spiders can love i cried missing my 5 little bugs thay loved me would jump one every morning all of them i would even talk to them and they would do the same with their little arms both raised up yes up down no for real. Cant do it anymore.

[@JWellsville]

I like orb weavers n huntsmen spiders

[@AngryKittens]

18:24 That was instantaneous.

[@AdroitJake]

I hate when I see, "how do I get rid of these pests in my house?!" Here's an idea...stop killing spiders! They are not pests, they kill pests! But, what do I know

[@Modernnannenginemarineengine]

PS. There spider houses look like WUN TUN Soup with sweet corn. Dang I’m hungry. So says the Female spiders

[@jackwt7340]

Little Shiva

[@chrishawth1589]

5:05 in, who else saw the fly run up pink stripes?🕷