{"id":121123,"date":"2016-05-11T08:56:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T06:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/121123\/wacky-wednesday-peacock-spiders-dance-for-their-lives\/"},"modified":"2016-05-11T08:56:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T06:56:54","slug":"wacky-wednesday-peacock-spiders-dance-for-their-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/entertainment-news\/2016\/05\/11\/wacky-wednesday-peacock-spiders-dance-for-their-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Wacky Wednesday: Peacock spiders dance for their lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tiny Peacock spiders (genus <em>Maratus<\/em>) dance their way to mating rights, but more than that \u2013 if they don\u2019t shake that booty to their proposed mate\u2019s satisfaction they may get eaten.<\/p>\n<p>Male peacock spiders have evolved spectacular iridescent fans to get the attention of a potential mate and sexy dance moves to.show them off. The dance of each species is unique, but most of them involve sensual leg waving and booty shaking.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>A male also pauses his dance to drum on the ground, and occasionally on the female\u2019s head.\u00a0The vibrations of the drumbeats travel across the ground and up the legs of the female, which get them going.<\/p>\n<p>Like all jumping spiders, peacock spiders don\u2019t build webs. They stalk their prey and when they\u2019re in position they pounce. They can take down prey three or four times their size.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<h3>Maratus Speciosus<\/h3>\n<p>The common name of this Australian species is Coastal Peacock spider. Until recently it was called <em>Saitis specious<\/em>, but it is very similar to other species of <em>Maratus<\/em> and therefore is now included in this genus.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/d_yYC5r8xMI' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='1b80b1fdf7a4fa060249b6509802f94e'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literally. Shake that booty or get eaten!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7782,"featured_media":121124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3686],"tags":[10955,10956,10957,10958],"class_list":["post-121123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-australian-peacock-spiders","tag-dancing-spiders","tag-peacock-spider-mating-dance","tag-tiny-peacock-spider"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["Australian peacock spiders","dancing spiders","peacock spider mating dance","tiny peacock spider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}