JUMPING SPIDERS!! How SMART Are They REALLY???

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

LOVE JUMPING SPIDERS? Look no further than this video here where I break down EVERYTHING that makes us LOVE these arachnids! Watch it now! kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4OoaZmigbykb6Msi=9xyfWrXnAHzHYF47

[@sunchild115]

Does that little tub u put it in hav air holes???

[@tickytickytango5634]

Jack: "She's getting ready to jump" Spider: _Teleports to the other hand_

[@zeph0shade]

A *quantum jump!*

[@Taco274x4]

@tickytickytango5634 😂😂😂

[@Bob_Adkins]

One teleported to my bare toe 1 time and made 2 small fang marks that turned black and lasted a month. I trust them, but no longer wiggle my toes like a grub.

[@milliepagan6491]

Lol you totally made me laugh hard asf with this comment 😂😂😂😂

[@buckanderson3520]

I think that their intelligence makes them less scary because it makes them more thoughtful about what they will bite. They don't seem mindless.

[@C0LL0SSUS]

Definitely, also they can listen to us. They not only see us but they can hear us as well. They don't seem to fear us at all they just seem curious. I love them. They kill pests and wasps. They have been observed looking at the moon! They cock their head to look at something like a puppy. Amazing little creatures.

[@misfitgaming2935]

Super intelligent creatures they have the brain size of a poppy seed which is considered huge seeing how small they are the only downside about these little guys only live for a year or so

[@KristoffFry]

It’s the big eyes and inquisitive head movements that make jumping spiders so darn cute.

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

I agree!

[@zeph0shade]

I have a personal theory pertaining to why they do that "head tilt" we commonly associate with dogs and cats. I believe it's widely accepted that when dogs or cats do that, it has to do with their hearing. Both being natural predator species, I imagine putting each ear at a different height provides a little more data concerning the direction and perhaps other details of a sound's source, which would be useful in tracking prey. Since jumping spiders are specialized visual hunters, clearly that doesn't account for why they do that same movement so often. I've noticed though, it seems that a lot of the times they do it it's when they're looking at us. It occurs to me that compared to our eyes, theirs are somewhat restricted to only focusing straight ahead. Even counting the smaller eyes at the sides of their heads, what they get is a very "landscape" picture of their surroundings. Ideal for surveying an area for prey or threats, not ideal for checking out very tall things like humans. So they tilt their head when they need to switch their eyes to portrait mode.

[@coen226]

@@JacksWorldofWildlife have a spider walk on your peenus while erect!!

[@nikkan3810]

​@@zeph0shadeso, like owls 🤔

[@zeph0shade]

@@nikkan3810 This marks the first time I considered the similarity but yes, I suppose so! I didn't even know that an owl's eyes can't pivot like ours until your reply made me look it up. Turns out jumping spiders are like owls.

[@jamnorge]

I use to be arachnophobic when I was younger so i am not overly enthused by arachnids. However, there was a jumping spider that lived outside the door of my apartment (Directly above my door), and I use to say hello whenever I saw it. Suddenly I started noticing he would come out when I came home and would stare at me, then one day, he followed me into my apartment and i will never forget how he looked at me, as if he knew me. I suddenly broke the spell and told him, hey buddy, you can't come in here, and as if he understood me, he slowly backed out of my apartment and I safely closed the door after he left. The entire time, he/she locked eyes with me and and it threw me way off when it backed out of my apartment after i asked it to. Weird to say the least.

[@matthewella8280]

That’s coz they can see in 3D like us and they can see 360 degrees

[@SuperFlashDriver]

If you ask me, I tend to be terrified of bees more often than I do with ants, spiders, and flies entirely...Every time I see a spider, I don't know if they're poisonous or not, so I just don't like to get bit or stung by these insects.

[@PeelZee]

Really hope this is still active. Similar experience recently happened to me prompting this deep dive. Jumping spider seeing, recognizing, and following me in, I watched him as he moved around looking at me, my shoes, my couch and finally back to me. I crouched down, waved at him with two fingers in a wagging motion like his spider legs. I said: “you’re pretty cool man I’m usually afraid of spiders” IT TOOK ONE ARM, POINTED TO ITSELF WHILE NODDING(?) AND THEN WAVED WITH ONE ARM. My blood went cold and looking back I still don’t know if it was shock, bewilderment, or fear of noncoincedence. Put him in a cup as I’m too scared to touch spiders still, and let him outside. Came home from work today and the fella was back!!! Taking name suggestions for the Lord of my Laundry room.

[@leonardorules7180]

​@@PeelZeeMonarch

[@deansmiley8221]

These Spiders definitely seem aware of everything. And are not afraid of you,in fact they seem to want to hang out with you lol!

[@jamesfancher7508]

once had one ride on my shoulder for a two mile bike ride, and i had to nudge it off when i got to the store.

[@Conduitgene]

Yep I had a friendly jumping spider hang out in my ceiling. Every time I would hold my hand out and put him/her back outside it would show up again and look at me so I let it in when it was too cold or too hot outside. Would make sure it was ok

[@deansmiley8221]

@blztatoad I thought I was the only weirdo that did stuff like that lol!

[@rusko8294]

@@Conduitgene how sweet~

[@geosobservations9496]

I sit on my step and play with them for hrs. kzbin.info1wuuPNr6jJ0?feature=share this one gave me multiple gestures that looks like hey man I want to go up there

[@CameilaSantos]

I have raised over 236 jumping spiders and have never been bit by one. They’re very sweet and enjoy hanging out with you ❤

[@lexxeffectual]

Over 236? 237? ;)

[@CameilaSantos]

@@lexxeffectual my two females had babies so now I have an extra 150 babies 😂

[@lexxeffectual]

@@CameilaSantos 😲😍 But - can they be released into the wild?

[@GuisoDePitusas2]

​@@CameilaSantos Aww it sounds really cute

[@LookUpYourRedemptionDrawsNigh]

Incred

[@irecycleoxygen2730]

You can tell they’re smart just by interacting with them, they’re the only spider I know that will actively look at you.

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

They are the most intelligent spiders

[@ISplimeI]

Please be sure not to mistake jumping spiders looking around as a sign of intelligence. Jumping spider vision is really interesting because only their primary eyes (the big ol' eyes in the front) are able to detect color (in some species even better than humans!) which means that the adaptation of them "looking around," is actually the spiders trying to keep whatever is in their direct line of vision in color focus. Hope this helps!

[@TheTrueSignpost]

One I found on a table kept looking me in the eyes.

[@ISplimeI]

@@hypercept Bro, WHAT. That's like a mix of a chameleon with modern cameras for eyes. XD That's crazy! Thanks for the info m8. 👍

[@Babydropzero]

@@ISplimeIur wrong i just watched a vid of sum1 with a pet jumping spider and she let it out and it looked straight at its owner and it crawled over to her and then jumped on her and chilled and made eye contact u are wrong mate

[@sam-gp3ov]

There was a really cool study conducted at harvard last year that tested these lil guys resting habits. They found that jumping spiders, even the spiderlings, experience REM sleep or dreams through observing their retinae & spasms- makes you wonder what kind information they could be storing. Forgot the name but this was a behavioral study by Daniela C. Rößler

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

Interesting!

[@selfless-esteem]

Hey I'm glad to see ppl who know what REM is for. I love that you said "what they're storing"

[@idid1866]

I saw that study...pretty remarkable! We don't know what they are thinking, but they are thinking!

[@andrewvarcoe4741]

Its possible to keep the "brain" alive they are reliving the remembered days events? Its possibly the way a living creature, compiles and defragments memories, maybe even fragmenting them to enable better recollection.

[@JamesDavis-w7v]

WOW - Fascinating!

[@Mayhamsdead]

Jumping spiders are like the Corgies of the Arachnids. They're curious, smart and so FREAKING CUTE!!!

[@valiantwarrior4517]

I was totally just thinking they are like the puppy dogs of spiders!

[@sabbys7750]

I agree... But I want to get a corgi... Not so much a jumping spider! Lol

[@valiantwarrior4517]

@@sabbys7750 hehe. I’ll take either.

[@friedmandesigns]

I would absolutely sell a portion of my soul for a Corgie-sized Salticidae.

[@valiantwarrior4517]

@@friedmandesigns whatever would you feed it? Or rather…whatever would it feed itself? **pounce** There goes another curious neighborhood cat.

[@Hallands.]

I noticed jumping spiders when I was a small kid and discovered that they were aware of me and my movements. This seemed very different from bees, who never seemed to notice you unless you actually touched one. I was almost dizzying to realise that such a small creature would look at something so much bigger than itself and correctly identify another being. They saw my eyes, and they knew when I was looking at them. Amazing… A then there’s the cuteness factor which is off the scale! 😊

[@qa377]

I think the difference is the eyes - jumping spiders have the two big eyes that are best at seeing detail, but don't have a wide angle of view, so they have to turn their body to get a better look. Whereas lots of insects have compound eyes that see in a wide range all at once, with about the same level of detail in all directions. They probably still know you're there, but it doesn't "look" like it because they don't have to turn around to see you.

[@xBINARYGODx]

@@qa377 well that, and this spider type over many others also act differently beyond that. they act more like small animals vs other insects.

[@delphicdescant]

@@xBINARYGODx I've been noticing the same thing about solifugae, recently, too. I think that's the feature of all these sorts of animals (particularly tiny "apex" predators) that intrigues me the most. They sometimes seem to behave like vertebrates trapped in little tiny invertebrate bodies.

[@ominous-omnipresent-they]

@xBINARYGODx Just a friendly correction: Spiders are arachnids, not insects. However, they both belong to the phylum Arthropoda, which is of the kingdom Animalia.

[@yamilink03]

It says a lot about a creature that is capable of looking back at you and you knowing it. I love how smart these guys are.

[@Healthy_Giant]

I had a "pet" jumping spider for a while that showed up in my apartment. Lived in the window and I saw it take out a HUGE carpenter ant once. They definitely can take out prey bigger than themselves.

[@scaredpaul540]

I also had him as "pet" at work...he tried to catch my mouse cursor on screen...and when i stop moving he looked at me...i even showed him to my coworker that i am not crazy. This spiders are defo thinking creatures

[@bellslinki]

Definitely clever little crreatures, love watching them

[@KatDoesWeather]

​@@scaredpaul540cat + laser pointer Moment

[@merchant69420]

yeah they cant take out full grown cockroaches and crickets. I also really like them cause they're very active Assassins unlike other spiders that set up web traps. (not like there's wrong with that)

[@znail4675]

@@merchant69420 Active hunters using sight to locate and navigate to prey is why they need to be smarter then other spider.

[@ElLenadorLA]

As a long time owner of tarantulas and somewhat new to owning jumpers I was pretty surprised the obvious intelligence difference. You can just see it in the way they interact with the world around them. Very cool little spiders.

[@MothkingTwelve]

I wish I had recorded it but I had parked my car near the wood line and after playing around on my phone, noticed a jumping spider trekking up the side of my door. It eventually made its way on top of the side view mirror. Eventually it made eye contact with me and just kinda… I don’t know, did something with its two mandibles or whatever they are. Wasn’t long before it scaled down and saw itself in the mirror and you can tell it scared itself! I spent about ten minutes watching it interact with its reflection, doing quick spins and flicking individual legs. It’s like it knew it was its own reflection and not another spider. Fascinating creatures

[@ArtisChronicles]

​@@MothkingTwelve that's a bit similar to a cat I once had when he saw his own reflection for the first time. He was ready to fight (in my arms at the time) and calmed down realizing what it was, especially as he saw me in the reflection. That is also the only time I've ever had a cat react so strongly to their own reflection. No idea how he never saw himself in a window before that.

[@babblingalong7689]

@@MothkingTwelve Jumping spiders could well pass the mirror test. That's amazing. It's considered a test of self-awareness. So if they pass it means they're self-aware.

[@w1975b]

@@babblingalong7689 I've heard that crows are as smart as a 7 year old child. I saw a group of crows looking in glass, either thinking their reflections were other crows or knowing they were reflections, I don't know for sure. I got video of it but can't remember which phone.

[@NotesNNotes]

I’m about to bring home my first few. I’m so exited. They seem super curious and amazing

[@F16_viper_pilot]

The spider’s documentary on the behavior of humans is coming soon.

[@LookUpYourRedemptionDrawsNigh]

😂

[@angelikashipman3260]

yeah, maybe humans could learn something from spiders...wait, no...scratch that LOL

[@KnotGypsy]

In my previous home, I had a bunch of wolf spiders. We mostly left each other alone, but I would rescue any that needed it. One day when I went into the kitchen and one of the spiders had a fly. It ran back and forth on the counter, waving the fly at me as if to show off its fly. Of course, I don't really know what the spider was intending, but it was quite adorable.

[@amandapanda5087]

That sounds so cute!

[@d-rockanomaly9243]

*shudder* I can't do wolf spiders. My old home was infested with them. God they terrify me. Funny tho jumping spiders I'll play with lol. The wolf spiders are fast, hard to kill, hunt like wolves, huge, and their goddamn eyes glow in the dark.

[@LookUpYourRedemptionDrawsNigh]

​@d-rockanomaly9243 Omg glow in the dark????

[@deborahhall6191]

@@d-rockanomaly9243my Dad took my kids out on the porch one evening and shone a flashlight into the yard. My daughter said there were multiple sets of red eyes shining from the ground. Dad explained they were wolf spiders who lived underground and would wait at the mouths of their holes waiting for prey to ambush. He explained they were big and scary looking and gave his little laugh when he would tease them. I don’t mind seeing them out and about but do not like meeting them in the house. But I think I could hold a jumping spider. As long as it doesn’t get around my neck lol.

[@garfunkle5447]

Out of all the spiders. These group look at you with curiosity. They seem more intelligent than most

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

They certainly have more brains than the average spider!

[@MaMastoast]

I think jumping spiders is a key example of how well humans tend to project our experiences onto other animals. Jumping spiders move on a noticeable different way to other spiders, they also have "cute" proportions.. makes it easier to trigger our empathy

[@znail4675]

I think the key is how they think, they do one thing at a time making it kind of clear what they are doing, be it observing or moving about.

[@YochevedDesigns]

I am usually terrified of spiders. Something about the way they move those long legs just triggers my fight or flight reflex. And then there's the way a jumping spider moves, that doesn't bother me one bit. I find them adorable, and I'm always really happy to see the occasional visitor to my home.

[@emilybrackett2840]

I got a jumping spider as a birthday gift. He is a male jumping spider, and his name is Lucas, and he looks exactly like that one, and I love him. I don't care if he bites me. I'm a true spider mom.

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

🫡

[@redraiderrider3289]

Why is every jumping spider named Lucas?

[@kylienielsen6975]

I would have named him Fabian but that's just because I'm a nerd

[@entomologistmaximus5097]

​@@redraiderrider3289I got one just a few days ago and it's a female regal, I named her cordie after the cliffside pilot episode on youtube

[@gabriellalefevre9252]

​@@redraiderrider3289because of the Pixar short "My name's Lucas". My jumper is also named Lucas because of this.

[@tomservo5347]

It's fascinating holding one while it stares at you with it's pedipalps moving, giving a sense it's just as curious as you are. I love the fact they give themselves a silk safety line just in case a jump goes awry. As a kid growing up on a farm I'd see these little spiders everywhere and catch flies for them, placing the fly behind them and seeing them immediately turn around, methodically and almost robotically stalk, get into position and pounce. They'd always turn and stare at me with their free meal as if to say, "Did you like the show? Thanks for lunch!" Amazing how such a tiny brain can compute the information from two front eyes (larger than it's brain), that see in three dimensions (for judging distance during jumps), in color in the same spectrum as us.

[@o0o-jd-o0o95]

usually a spider biting you is its last ditch effort to defend itself ... But if you don't give it a reason to think it needs to defend itself then it certainly is not going to want to bite you for the most part.

[@FoxxyMoxxy13]

My male has a orange butt and he is so handsome 🧡 I fr tell people they don’t know rejection until a jumping spider refuses to hop on you and refuses to leave their enclosure

[@ianhornbuckle9089]

The only spider I can actually say I love. I’d keep one as a pet

[@tikimillie]

You can

[@PVRGE7]

Its amazing to me how visibly curious they actually look. Like you can literally see the head movement as if it knows exactly what it's looking at. They are clever observers. Sometimes i wonder what actually processes through their minds when they observe certain things. Like a curious mini cat. Its wild. Beautiful creatures

[@blazing_pyro67]

I discovered something really cool a month or so ago. If you take both hands and use your pointer fingers to move them like a jumping spiders pedipalps you can actually have a full conversation with a jumping spider. You can tell they love it by how they respond moving their own pedipalps even on occasion taking them and covering their eyes to play peek a boo with you.

[@PhoenicopterusR]

They might just think you're trying to court them

[@blazing_pyro67]

@@PhoenicopterusR That's hot 🥵 🔥 😂😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣😂😂

[@w1975b]

@@PhoenicopterusR or embarrassed at what the human said, because the human doesn't know lol, and that's why it's covering the eyes (just more anthropomorphizing, I know :) )

[@ONIYAUTJA]

@@PhoenicopterusRI laughed out when I read this. Gg

[@Ebolarama5000]

I play peekaboo with my girl Bee. She’s so cute and tiny and shy though.

[@CrimsonUltrafox]

Literally the only spider in the world that's cute.

[@DankyDankenstein]

One lived in my bedroom when I was a kid. Most mornings, I’d wake up and she’d be sitting on my nightstand staring at me. Then, one day, she wasn’t there and I never saw her again. I was so sad, but I convinced myself that she got married and moved outside.

[@usr1993]

While my landlord was mowing I had to bring my bike indoors to store it. Ended up leaving it in my apartment for a few weeks. During this time a family of jumping spiders hatched. There were at least 12 tiny black specs showing up in different places around my apartment, but most of them nested in a lamp I leave on. I suppose they were keeping warm. Then, a week later I would wake up with one or two just chilling on my torso while I slept. They were keeping warm on me!! It freaked me out a bit but I love these little guys so much, and they were SOO small I wasn't intimidated by their bites. So, I rescued each and every one of them and put them outside my apartment one by one. It was a gentle, curious experience. 🕷️🕸️

[@pueblodove]

I have had little jumping spiders wave at me when I wave at them first!, They are so cute!

[@heathermauldin4951]

I love their little faces. A bit of trivia for you... In Irish, spider is "damahán alla." It literally translates to "little wild ox." I think that is so precious.

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

Love that!!

[@umachan9286]

Jumping spiders are adorable. Those big eyes, quizzical head movement and the fact that they're seemingly aware of you makes them the best of the arachnids.

[@Vei2aC]

Heya Jack, i really enjoiyed this, i love the passion you have, i hope you go far, thank you so much for educating us, you make it worth the time, and its engaging, a beautiful spider, but also a beautiful human, thanx again Jack.

[@Ebolarama5000]

I have three as pets and they each have their own distinct personality, likes and dislikes. Different temperaments but all incredibly smart and adorable

[@VigorousPlay]

The intelligence and curiosity of jumping spiders is very impressive. Those factors really sets them apart from other spiders.

[@rosalina2773]

My brother keeps insects and he once trapped and kept a black widow he found in his garage. She ended up being one of his favorite pets. He never handled her but she would often “watch” him from her enclosure whenever he was nearby (I know they don’t see well so maybe it was more listening? Idk) and seemed to display excitement at feeding time. I thought that spider must have felt like she won the lottery 😂 being kept safe from predators and hand fed.

[@catseyesmidnight2889]

Awww, little 8 legged teddy bears. ♥️ Great video, thanks Jack.

[@nicholas3354]

With such good eyesight and spatial skills, I wouldn't be surprised if they can recognize a sufficiently familiar face, just as they can recognize a familiar location.

[@cortneykinney3229]

They can 😊

[@GilraenTook]

Oddly enough, I've been terrified of spiders since I was a kid, yet (and I think it's because I was told how smart the were when I was a kid) somehow I've never had a problem with these guys.

[@MycketTuff]

What's even funnier is that the fear many have is that spiders would jump on them; and this spoder is the one that cures arachnophobia

[@paydayvideos4924]

@@MycketTuff idk for me its my black widow as a kid i always found them and they arent very fast and very fun to feed and watch although not sure id ever hold it dont wanna be in pain for 9 hrs

[@jonahcaddell7453]

I had really bad fears of spiders but these guys never bothered me

[@Pbav8tor]

One reason people like them so much is because they aren't afraid of humans. We are too big for them to perceive as anything but a barrier or a bridge. As kids, we kept them as racing pets. They jumped away pretty often, but theyre easy to catch and fun to play gently with. Adorable little furry paws too. A tarantula is a very different animal. Also a fun pet. The first time they get out of their habitat, mom says, "Okay kids, we're done with pet spiders in the house."

[@flymachine]

I love how they always look wired on coffee ready to go absolutely nuts - if they could talk they’d be jabbering nonstop and screaming randomly like a mental patient - they’ve done more to endear spiders to people than any other species - like dolphins of the arachnid world. The most anthropomorphised species of all! I hated spiders my whole life until I met a jumping in my bathroom who would come out and watch me brush my teeth and ate all the mosquitos and pests❤

[@DragonitaPurple]

Even if they don't emote to the same level people do, it's still so cool how aware of their environment they are at all! I don't have jumpers as pets, but some tend to get in the house and I let them live here as free roaming house spiders. I only pick them up to relocate them away from dangerous places or get them closer to better food sources, and it was fascinating seeing a spider I knew for only 1 day go from being scared running away from me to willingly jump on my hand when I approached and being cool with it. Being able to earn a spider's trust still feels like a big deal!

[@Mrbfgray]

Cool story. Once watched one for near an hr hunting a house fly on large window, it was based in one lower corner, would head out anytime fly got near that area then retreat again after fly went too far. Very interesting how it would close distance fast across glass *when fly was facing away* then slow way down when fly turned toward it. Finally at bottom window frame/glass seam the two were facing eachother, spider closed the last couple inches so slow it was difficult to perceive, getting within half a fly length then of course closing gap instantaneously.

[@DragonitaPurple]

@@Mrbfgray spider over there playing red light green light murder edition that's so cool

[@LookUpYourRedemptionDrawsNigh]

That is amazing

[@jessethabarber]

The poop at 12:10 made me laugh. I swear mine waits to poop on me as soon as I take her out 💩

[@islandsicedtea]

the only spider I’m not only 0% afraid of but drawn to because they always look at you in the face and are so cute

[@PassportBrosBusinessClass]

Smart enough to trick humans into KZbin collaboration

[@joehuestis652]

People unfortunately humanize animals. As you previously stated jumping, especially the Portia Jumping spider, have an incredible ability to assess a hunt... Portia's have been labeled (by some) a spider hunter. I've had fish (Beta) that would rub his back on my finger w/family saying he likes to get petted. Unfortunately, the fish likely enjoyed an abrasive surface to shed off irritants on it's scales. I've had a large Fence Swift that also wagged it's tail when I petted it but w/ it's eyes closed it didn't know it was being petted. The hilarious part was once it opened it's eyes it jumped a hissed and scared the socks off the people petting it. That lizard never acclimated to human interaction and for a year always stayed wary. I released it on a large downed tree, in a state park, w/much smaller fence swifts that were half it's size. Perhaps, humanizing a potentially scary animal makes people feel less afraid of nature's savagery.....maybe, most people are too domesticated themselves and are incapable of accepting the "real" world and humans lack of control when nature flexes it's muscle. Great video Jack and stay safe.

[@kirilltroiak5241]

Beautiful and well-composed comment!

[@friedmandesigns]

+1, well-thought-out comment and nicely scribed. I'd only amend it to "Most people forget the hominin is an animal." Attempts to "humanize" other animal species to be viewed more as we'd hope ourselves to be seem a doomed venture. Humans are easily the most destructive of any species currently depleting the resource-constrained inputs of Spaceship Earth. We are nature's savagery. We're not outside of it. Cheers.

[@pyromen321]

I’m a huge spider fan and always let them hang out in my home, but I get extra excited when jumping spiders move in! Most spiders just pick a place and hang out there, but jumping spiders are fun roommates because they move around so much and you’ll just randomly see them in odd places.

[@DonSanchez]

_"I’m a huge spider fan and always let them hang out in my home"_ I don't know if you enjoy surprise-walking into spider strings/webs with your face, but have you never considered that they could meet a suitable mate and reproduce in your home? You might get dozens/hundreds of tiny baby spiders crawling all over your home, ew lol. Maybe they're laying eggs behind a heavy cabinet in your bedroom right now...

[@pyromen321]

@@DonSanchez bruh that would mean my home would be bug free for months! It’d be like hundreds of little maids

[@monkmoto1887]

@@pyromen321 no it’d be like hundreds of now starving cannibal spiders that leave your house strewn with their corpses.

[@rainbowsixmeme9739]

​@@DonSanchez I'd rather have jumping spiders in my home than fucking roaches lol now that's gross. If you just had the jumping ones they wont make stationery webs everywhere, they would just kill and eat every other big in your house and keep it bug free

[@FluffyBusch]

@@DonSanchezSome spiders are nature’s natural predators for pesky pests. They actually advise you not to kill wolf spiders around your home. I catch and release wolf spiders (if they’re in the open house). Orb weavers are also great if they stay outside, they always have their webs down by sunrise. Wolf for the ground artillery, orb for the air artillery lmao. I used to hate spiders until I owned my own home.

[@erikarnold4737]

When I kept a bold for about 9 months, during covid, I felt he had a personality. I know that's not the truth, there is even a big study about jumpers having personalities that was full of lies and phony science. But, he was beautiful and happy and brought me so much joy to feed and watch him molt and grow. He was very easy to love and keep. I know he was a male because he performed his mating dance when he spotted a female I had brought in a different tank (also had large pedipalps). I recommend anyone keeping one if they want to understand how spiders work and think. Great video and good information.

[@MykeDebotanist]

I always say you don’t have to love something and it be reciprocated. I love my jumping spider girl. Her name is Rosie. 🥰

[@Peaches-i2i]

Great video, it has the same feel of those nature shows you used to see back in the 90s and early 00s. Much better than a lot of modern productions that rely on stock footage and CG. Seeing hosts out in the field actually handling and showing the subject matter is the best.

[@garrettmancuso4417]

Jumping spiders are always welcome in our home. We live in an area where flies are unavoidable in the spring and fall. The little black and orange jumper living in my window sill is happy to eat them up. The spiders nest in our mailbox and inevitably get brought in with the jink mail. That's fine, They're great guest.

[@WastrelWay]

You mentioned that they are capable of solving mazes. That was a very interesting experiment by some scientists in Australia. The maze was transparent and the spider could see the fly from the starting point. The first time in the maze, the spider took a long time to get to the fly, but their performance improved every time they tried. This is not really intelligence but the ability to learn how to navigate an environment, something that practically all animals have to some degree. I wonder how other species of hunting spiders, wolf spiders or lynx spiders for instance, would do.

[@LackedPlays]

I had a jumping spider that would hop onto my window sill next to my desk and come look at me every day or two while i worked there. It did so for months before varnishing and i still miss it

[@lindad1195]

Very cute little spider! I’m very afraid of spiders but the more I see these little ones the more I like them. I got so excited the other day because there was one on my cars windshield. I thought about capturing it but then decided he was best left in the wild.

[@jessehutchings]

One of our jumping spiders out back killed a wolf spider that built a nest in our shed. I noticed the jumper near the web and looked for the wolf and its carcass was laying on the sill under its web!

[@jimgom3337]

Jack, you are a pure talent ! The presentation of a wildlife cannot be more entertaining and educational than your videos ! You are phenomenon !

[@deannalea1515]

Thanks!

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

Thanks so much for your support!!

[@kristiekane6582]

So, they only seem to enjoy us because we feed them? You’ve just described my cat!

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

😂😂😂

[@bugstomper4670]

Actually, they did a study on that, and cats see humans as a 'big dumb cat' that cannot hunt properly.

[@jba.9385]

​@@bugstomper4670which is also why they sometimes bring you mice and birds

[@katherinewinnett582]

That message at 13 mins was so thoughtful and sweet to mention :') Thank you for that!

[@RojMofficial]

I love how these spiders look like they’re glitching, teleporting, and slightly rubber banding. My backyard is overflowing with them this year and I always mistakenly run through their webs. Have fun with your ants, flies, & mosquitoes little fellers.

[@znail4675]

They don't make webs though other then tiny nests to sleep in.

[@kaidwyer]

I had a TINY baby jumper (size of a grain of sand perhaps) just appear on my hand out of nowhere a few weeks ago. It was like a little twitchy puffball with eyes! It’s interesting how they seem to know they’re being observed, and are just fine with it. Most spiders are totally oblivious until they go into bite-or-flight mode!

[@johnbest1978]

I was going to say it but you beat me to it Jack about how spider's aren't aggressive unless they are pinned and feel like they're trapped and have nothing else to do but bite but they'll run away before biting thank you Jack for the education and an awesome video like always have a great day bro and thank you again

[@I_am_ENSanity]

Jumping spiders are basically the cats of the spider world. They just seem to be adorable even when doing the little things.

[@shannonlee3671]

All i can think is how that spider is wondering why this human has stuck her in a jar and refuses to let her go...like, "put me down you beast!" They really are too cute.

[@PneumaNoose]

The way they Superman their front legs out right before jumping is my absolute favorite thing about them 🥹

[@WhatWouldVillainsDo]

One of the abilitys that have is "foreward" thinking they will observe their enviroment and develope a plan before acting. Some mammals don't even do that.

[@echofoxtrot2.051]

That green "moustache" is amazing! I love how compact they are. Like little Porsches or something.

[@DocM.]

Just had one in my house with fuzz stuck to 2 of its legs binding them together. Got it on my hand and some tweezers. At first it kept trying to get away, eventually I was able to pinch a small piece of the fuzz off and then it calmed down. It let me get the tweezers closer and I pinched more fuzz, it pulled its body back away from the tweezers pinching the fuzz getting that bit off. The third time I grabbed the last of the fuzz and it sat still while I slowly pulled that last bit off its legs and it just sat there for a few seconds looked towards my face and then stayed calmly on my hand walking around until I put him down outside with some little ants! You be the judge of that. It appeared it took literally SECONDS for the little beauty to go from cautious and trying to protect its life to realizing I was helping it and us both working together to get this fuzz trapping its legs off. ❤ Awesome

[@crystal-eb5rf]

I've kept them as pets , I think they are more intelligent than people think. And definitely have individual characters. In studies it's been discovered that they can dream when they sleep..

[@chainbenwa2713]

One has been living in my house for about 3-4 months now and it’s lived in its same corner of my living room the whole time. It patrols the wall leading to the kitchen and back door and even leaves when I leave the door open and always comes back to the same spot. Me and my wife could tell it was special (for a spider) pretty quickly. It seems to know to stay just out of range of my dogs but doesn’t seem to mind me or my wife. It’s so funny that it always goes back to the same spot in the corner behind the lamp. Never gets on the couch or causes any problems I really think it’s adapted to living with us well lol.. maybe not but it sure seems like it.

[@Ok_Cabbage]

Really appreciate your outlook on public perception and the nature of these beautiful little creatures.

[@AlexJones-vq5dm]

I saved one from drowning in my dog's bowl of water and it hung out with me for two days then left. It was soooo cute.

[@Lisa-rq1ff]

Thank you Jack for speaking the truth about these creatures, the fact that 'certain' people act as though these spiders are their pets,as though they (the spiders) have 'feelings' towards them! Ridiculous ! I really enjoyed this and I'm subscribing.😊

[@LeeGall333]

The reason I clicked on the video, was that cute as hell grad cap on the little spider from the thumbnail!! Lol!

[@lisajones8730]

Just found your videos and am catching up. I had a jumping spider on my deck and used to give it a few drops of water when we had hot and dry conditions. I know we weren't really buds but it was fun to think so 😂 I really like your videos. Thanks for bringing the creepy crawlies out for us to get to know !!

[@lisamareepritchard6375]

Thank you for your video Jack, she is gorgeous. I’ve been keeping Jumping spiders for a couple of years now, only captive bred ones. I live in Australia & have a Servaea Incana, aka Giant Bark Jumping spider that I’ve had for 18 months. Our jumping spiders here are not as large. I agree with you, they are very inquisitive, she comes over when I go near her enclosure, but is also quite shy, so I respect her boundaries, sometimes she wants to come out, other times she doesn’t. I love her though, she’s adorable & I love watching her hunt.

[@lindenstromberg6859]

There’s a jumping spider living in my home office. I’m unsure what it feeds on (and it’s free to go outside any time it wants, the gap under the screen in the window is wide enough, and I’m pretty sure it’s aware of its existence) every now and then, it will jump down into the boxes in the corner and spend about an hour or so down there. I know there are some weevils or something down there. But, what I’m waiting for is the inevitable fruit fly infestation of my kitchen so I’ll have something to feed him (yes, it’s a male). Anyway, the jumping spider seems relatively curious about me and my wife (who also works in the office). And when we’re in there, he will spend about 80% of the time just sitting on the wall, right in front of us, watching. At first, he would sit on the ceiling, or close to it; but now, he sits at about midway down the wall (about head height). Interesting creatures, and they have personality.

[@eriksonyw]

One of the biggest enemies of the jumping spiders is actually certain types of large wasps that hunt almost exclusively on them or other similar size spiders for baby food. If u do own a jumping spider as pet, please use peppermint oil, fresh marjoram herbs (maybe oregano too), or eucalyptus leaves as a non-deadly deterrent method to keep wasps away. 🤓

[@CherokeeBird]

Very cool tip. Thank you! 😊

[@eriksonyw]

@@CherokeeBird You are welcome!

[@eehee2428]

Well keep it in an enclosure so a wasp cant get it too!

[@dorothybrotherton9195]

We had one on our front porch . When it was little my husband would feed it. Every time he would go out and sit on the porch it would come out and climb on him. If I did it wouldn't. It knew who he was.

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

Check out my recent jumping spider video where I filmed the LARGEST SPECIES in the US! kzbin.info/www/bejne/l36xhKWXdpmXn6ssi=BqGzBxe96KXXYz-F

[@nct948]

Jack, which country are you recording from?

[@ryant]

Jumping spiders are my personal favorite. For anyone interested in reading about the founding of a technological civilization of Portia Jumping Spiders over the course of roughly 2000 years, it's definitely the highlight of the novel Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Amazing video, thanks!

[@seeingeyegod]

:) that book is also why I'm here looking for jumping spider videos

[@friedmandesigns]

Just found this book thanks to your comment ... 425 pages, awesome! Looking forward to the brain food. Long live the mighty, curious, space-faring (someday) fiercely-intelligent Salticidae!

[@ammoalamo6485]

The whole trilogy - Children of Time, of Ruin, and of Memory, is a fabulous work that deserves should make any lover of future science happy for a long time - and I mean a very long time, because between the three books there are close to 1,700 pages, and worth every page read, IMHO. Many of Adrian's other books are nearly as good, and are worth a serious read. His naming convention, starting with Portia, is a great literary technique that makes sense in a book spanning centuries, avoiding the confusion of an endless series of famous but forgettable characters.

[@isomeme]

​@@seeingeyegod, me too! 🙂

[@haunted5311]

I was mowing for my job when I noticed a jumping spider on my shirt. I offered it my hand, it looked at it, jumped onto it, then I held it up to my face. I swear it actually made eye contact and held it. Then I brought it to a nearby branch from a tree, it gave me 1 last glance, inspected the branch, then hopped onto it. These little critters 100% are intelligent.

[@Ketchup_And_Rice]

wow those are huge...the ones I usually encounter are the small brown ones

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

They’re one of our largest species!

[@racheldoesacrylic4089]

just had a huge spider that's hanging out in my bedroom ceiling and been sleeping a lot calling him Pete waiting for him to move , as long as he don't come over my bed I'm cool /would never hurt them just don't like the fact it could nip me while sleeping and could squash him by accident x

[@thelizarddude]

Getting a phidippus regius female specimen in a few days. So excited.

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

That’s awesome!

[@whiteboy7thstreet]

jumping spiders actually helped me overcome my arachnophobia! the big eyes and cute little movements drew me in as i conceptualised them as arachnid puppies! amazing little things and such a fascinating video too

[@tonytutone2003]

You are so wrong about these guys emotional intelligence. I used to live in Lismore in northern NSW. Aus. Every day when I took my dog for a walk I would sit at a table and have a beer. One day a small-half the size of the one you have- came out and investigated me. I let it do its thing. It was very cool. The next time I was there it appeared again and after that encounter I would call the spider and it would come out. It used to drink from the dew on my beer bottle. Then scale my bike up to the top of the handlebars and watch the traffic. It did nearly the same thing every time. The park was on a T intersection and it used to love to track the cars as they stopped and turned. We did this every day for ages. I have somewhere footage I took with my phone as this was so special.

[@CHAOSTACTICAL]

I love how he said the same exact thing but in different ways for the entire video quite impressive

[@ninifire4282]

Yup That’s how you get through college essays

[@letmepicyou]

I can promise you that these little creatures do, indeed, possess a limited emotional capacity, at least to the tune of frustration or anger. One time I had a jumping spider on my computer desk that was quite comfortable hanging around me. Like most computer techs, I had a can of "Dust-off" compressed air on my desk. So I removed the long, thin, red "spray tube" from the can and began using it to...shall we say...annoy the little fella. He'd be walking about, and I'd come up behind him with the tube and gently poke at his backside or tease his back legs. He would turn around, look at the tube, then move away. Almost as if to say, "No thanks, not interested." I played that little game for a few minutes until he got tired of it. What happened then was fascinating, and was a true learning moment for me as far as jumping spiders are concerned. After a few minutes of me teasing him, his pattern of looking at the tube, seeing it, and moving away from it changed dramatically. All of a sudden, he turned around, grabbed the tube with his front feet, and BIT IT. As in, "I SAID LEAVE ME ALONE." And I mean, really bit it...he really laid into it, and the message was quite clear. I could even see his tiny fangs extend when he did so. He was quite clearly annoyed. After he bit it, he turned away again as if to say "Maybe NOW you'll get the message." I reinforced his behavior by stopping my "tube teasing", which seemed to make him quite happy, and he was fine after that. I suggest you try it for yourself. They're smart (relatively speaking) and inquisitive, and can certainly express being annoyed or angry, at the very least.

[@packratr4]

I agree with you. I have always been a fan of arachnids and insects ever since I can remember. Most of my life I held the position that they are all, as a group, mindless robots running purely on instinct completely devoid of emotion or self awareness. There have been many good experiments done in the past that seem to prove this point of view, and I fervently aligned myself with them. For instance the was one that showed just how extremely limited in intelligence, in this case a tarantula wasp is even when it comes to the most mundane of problem solving abilities. Tarantula wasp moms reproductive duties include digging a nursery chamber for a single egg big enough to hold a grasshopper. They then locate and paralyze a locust, drag it by one of its front legs back to the nursery chamber, and lay a single egg on it, covers the entrance and leaves the rest to chance. The grasshopper serves as a baby food pantry for her offspring until it reaches adulthood where exits the nursery for the cycle to continue, and begins its search for a job and apartment in upper Manhattan. With the intention of reducing the pesky tarantula wasp over population problem, the scientists remove both front legs of the grasshopper and re-present it to the wasp so she can continue her duties, but no matter how strongly her desire to have children, she is absolutely dumbfounded, and cannot make the simple connection that any of the other legs on the grasshopper would do just fine as handles for its transportation to the nursery, so she frantically runs circles around it looking for its absent front legs, eventually at least having the presence of mind to give up, and then, broken hearted, finally leaves. When I read about this, and other similar studies, I was convinced that insects were absolutely, purely instinctual creatures, and held that belief firmly for a long long time. Then, I hate to admit it, but one day, my girlfriend and I were in the middle of an argument that was so emotionally charged and I was so angry, that I had to walk away to remove the possibility of my losing all self control and slapping the s**t out of her. It was that bad, and I was that mad. So I'm outside now, pacing around in our garden, getting even more frustrated, upset and angry because now my ears were burning from the steam blowing out of my head. I desperately needed to find some form of release, and just at that moment, I thought I had found it. It was a preying mantis. He was minding his own business, whistling some happy little tune while looking for his breakfast, and since he was mindless and couldn't experience pain, was the perfect victim for my replacement therapy, so I bent down, with my giant God like arm from the sky, him still whistling, unbeknownst of my presence, and with just my middle finger, gave him the thump of his lifetime, right in the noggin. For him the sheer power and magnitude of the blow was inconceivable, and knocked him unconscious for an instant, and he immediately went into what looked to me like the "Curly shuffle" spinning around madly on his side. After about 10 revolutions he stopped, got up and dusted himself off, so to speak. Still dizzy, I'm sure, wondering what the hell happened, and now I believe in pain, he turned his head, looking from side to side, and then startling me, cocked it sideways, and I'm not religious, but God only knows how, but instantly, and I mean instantly recognized me, big as I was compared to him, instantly recognized me as the culprit, and threw up his purple karate cape into a fan shape, and then brought up his arms together and started moving them in unison in a fashion that looked exactly to me the same way that the black kids did in my grade school, when showing off heir Rocky Marciano style of boxing. Anyway, I was absolutely stunned, so completely caught off guard and finally so convinced by all of his actions that he was indeed conscious and self aware, and that he felt the pain, that I actually apologized to him several times and tried to smooth things over for him, telling him " I'm so sorry, I didn't know. You were just walking around, minding your own business, and I was so damn mad at my girlfriend that I just bent down and took it out on you. I'm sorry, I didn't know." And I still don't, and I'll admit it, that I really don't know anymore whether or not those hundreds of millions of years of evolution at work on those compact, highly efficient tiny little brains are capable of doing.....maybe besides their already amazing instinctual capabilities there is also room for a small slice of the other.......of what we have. You gotta start somewhere you know!

[@packratr4]

I agree with you. I have always been a fan of arachnids and insects ever since I can remember. Most of my life I held the position that they are all, as a group, mindless robots running purely on instinct completely devoid of emotion or self awareness. There have been many good experiments done in the past that seem to prove this point of view, and I fervently aligned myself with them. For instance the was one that showed just how extremely limited in intelligence, in this case a tarantula wasp is even when it comes to the most mundane of problem solving abilities. Tarantula wasp moms reproductive duties include digging a nursery chamber for a single egg big enough to hold a grasshopper. They then locate and paralyze a locust, drag it by one of its front legs back to the nursery chamber, and lay a single egg on it, covers the entrance and leaves the rest to chance. The grasshopper serves as a baby food pantry for her offspring until it reaches adulthood where exits the nursery for the cycle to continue, and begins its search for a job and apartment in upper Manhattan. With the intention of reducing the pesky tarantula wasp over population problem, the scientists remove both front legs of the grasshopper and re-present it to the wasp so she can continue her duties, but no matter how strongly her desire to have children, she is absolutely dumbfounded, and cannot make the simple connection that any of the other legs on the grasshopper would do just fine as handles for its transportation to the nursery, so she frantically runs circles around it looking for its absent front legs, eventually at least having the presence of mind to give up, and then, broken hearted, finally leaves. When I read about this, and other similar studies, I was convinced that insects were absolutely, purely instinctual creatures, and held that belief firmly for a long long time. Then, I hate to admit it, but one day, my girlfriend and I were in the middle of an argument that was so emotionally charged and I was so angry, that I had to walk away to remove the possibility of my losing all self control and slapping the s**t out of her. It was that bad, and I was that mad. So I'm outside now, pacing around in our garden, getting even more frustrated, upset and angry because now my ears were burning from the steam blowing out of my head. I desperately needed to find some form of release, and just at that moment, I thought I had found it. It was a preying mantis. He was minding his own business, whistling some happy little tune while looking for his breakfast, and since he was mindless and couldn't experience pain, was the perfect victim for my replacement therapy, so I bent down, with my giant God like arm from the sky, him still whistling, unbeknownst of my presence, and with just my middle finger, gave him the thump of his lifetime, right in the noggin. For him the sheer power and magnitude of the blow was inconceivable, and knocked him unconscious for an instant, and he immediately went into what looked to me like the "Curly shuffle" spinning around madly on his side. After about 10 revolutions he stopped, got up and dusted himself off, so to speak. Still dizzy, I'm sure, wondering what the hell happened, and now I believe in pain, he turned his head, looking from side to side, and then startling me, cocked it sideways, and I'm not religious, but God only knows how, but instantly, and I mean instantly recognized me, big as I was compared to him, instantly recognized me as the culprit, and threw up his purple karate cape into a fan shape, and then brought up his arms together and started moving them in unison in a fashion that looked exactly to me the same way that the black kids did in my grade school, when showing off heir Rocky Marciano style of boxing. Anyway, I was absolutely stunned, so completely caught off guard and finally so convinced by all of his actions that he was indeed conscious and self aware, and that he felt the pain, that I actually apologized to him several times and tried to smooth things over for him, telling him " I'm so sorry, I didn't know. You were just walking around, minding your own business, and I was so damn mad at my girlfriend that I just bent down and took it out on you. I'm sorry, I didn't know." And I still don't, and I'll admit it, that I really don't know anymore whether or not those hundreds of millions of years of evolution at work on those compact, highly efficient tiny little brains are capable of doing.....maybe besides their already amazing instinctual capabilities there is also room for a small slice of the other.......of what we have. You gotta start somewhere you know!

[@corv1d770]

A small, perhaps redundant detail; I appreciate that you properly refer to and acknowledge them as ANIMALS. Some people regard invertebrates as if theyre not even animals. which is not only scientifically frustrating and misinformed, but deeply disappointing when you come to understand how conscious and aware they can be. Some people culturally alienate them right out of the animal kingdom, it seems. Im a recovering arachnophobe, however I want to understand these creatures more to fully reconcile my fear with reality. The reality is that only a select few arachnids can even remotely harm me, so why should we demean or harm them for the crime of being small, vulnerable, and different from us? Spiders arent brainiacs by any means, but many display an uncanny awareness that deserves respect and consideration. If I were that small and encountered something the size of a skyscraper, I'd hope it would recognize I'm just trying to get by on another scale of life and not crush me.

[@JamesFocht]

Always enjoy your videos Jack. Sat here and watched it with my 5 year old and he was very interested!!

[@miraomadden6195]

So my husband has been asking for a spider and I decided this year as his birthday gift I will try my best to enjoy this hobby with him and not freak out when he gets one. The jumping spiders are definitely easier to stomach. Thank you for the video I enjoy your way of approaching wildlife and that its okay for us to love them but for them to only care we are food source

[@tilapiadave3234]

They are smarter than a lot of people I get to meet on a daily basis

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

😂 that may be true

[@patriotu.s.elections7879]

I really like your delivery. low low back ground tunes . perfect speech. GREAT, THANK YOU !

[@kristismart4065]

Wonderful! I love how you bring us back to earth concerning their capacity to feel. We just found a number of these wonderful spiders local to me and I was happy to find your informative video.

[@christianbolt5761]

I always catch them inside my house to find a nice place outside

[@glitchmod1927]

Jumping spiders are like little alien killing machines. Just eliminating everything we don’t like.

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

They’re great hunters!

[@glitchmod1927]

@@JacksWorldofWildlife Have to keep reminding my girl to not kill them because they take care of the spiders we don’t like. Maybe that’s a sign she’s not the one 🤔🤔

[@Impericalevidence]

Mmhmm... Yeah, okay, jack. Well today, I was outside where I drink my coffee .. and a jumping spider I've seen many times came up close. I knew it was going to jump on me, it did. I let it crawl all it wanted and it eventually jumped off my big toe. I named it Gerald, and he's my coffee buddy.

[@michellemorningstar880]

I love Jumping spiders i have one right now named Lucas and he is a bold jumping spider they are amazing love when they look at you . I love them thanks so very much for this amazing video had a female that lays eggs 2 clutches too

[@omegahaxors9-11]

"Insects don't have emotions" "They can jump away if they want to" [bangs container and agitates it] [it jumps away as soon as it gets the chance] [surprised pikachu face]

[@Levelz31]

i keep peacock jumping spiders here in Australia... amazing creatures

[@kristingray7786]

Man, I wish I could get one. I hear you can't send them to the US. Unless you know something, i don't.