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Spiders' Methods of Hunting 35

have described above, by chance, and also learned to use it by chance.
Any intelligent person can see that such a thing is impossible. But let us
for a moment accept, despite its clear impossibility, that such a thing is
possible and that the first Dinopis managed to spin such a web by chance.

These pictures show the stages of the
Dinopis' hunting technique. The spider
hangs on a thread it has tied to a
branch or leaf. Then it waits in ambush.
There is no escape for the prey which
passes under it. The spider suddenly
jumps and throws its web over its prey.