Watch this incredible spider do a voodoo dance
BY READERS DIGEST
1st Jan 2015 Animals & Pets
When you’re only 4mm long, you have to work to make an impact. Enter the Australian peacock spider...
His mating dance starts with lifting white-tipped legs into the air and waving them hypnotically. Then the abdomen throbbing begins. Once the ladies are looking, he raises a “tail” made of two brilliantly coloured flaps and dances about.
Dr Jürgen Otto spotted his first peacock spider while bushwalking near Sydney. He returned with a video camera and spent the next three years trying to find another one before success.
(Just wait until you get to 1.25—look out, ladies!!)