Comments on: The Race: Henrique’s Spider http://www.calacademy.org/medialibrary/blogs/gulfofguinea/?p=273 The island biodiversity race Mon, 13 May 2013 17:03:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: bob http://www.calacademy.org/medialibrary/blogs/gulfofguinea/?p=273&cpage=1#comment-6364 bob Sat, 21 May 2011 00:33:14 +0000 http://www.calacademy.org/medialibrary/blogs/gulfofguinea/?p=273#comment-6364 thanks, Melanie. they are certainly weird critters. the spines are hard and certainly part of the exoskeleton. as to function, someone has probably speculated on this but I have not seen anything personally.

]]> By: Melanie Bourgeois http://www.calacademy.org/medialibrary/blogs/gulfofguinea/?p=273&cpage=1#comment-6361 Melanie Bourgeois Fri, 20 May 2011 04:50:25 +0000 http://www.calacademy.org/medialibrary/blogs/gulfofguinea/?p=273#comment-6361 This is absolutely fascinating!

I can’t imagine how enriching it must be to be able to travel the world to educate the local populations. My dream!

I’m trying to figure out that spider. Is it an exosqueleton on its back? or is it only soft membrane? So weird, you’d put that in a movie and people would say it’s not believable.;o)

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