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male. Fooled for the moment, the spider emerges from its home. 9
How does Portia match signals with different types of spiders and
why did it select such a different method of hunting? It is not logical to
suggest that a spider could have an "imitative skill" and because of this
should choose such an interesting hunting technique. The spider hunts in

this way because that is how it was created by God. In such examples,
God shows us the incomparable nature of His art of creation.

Portia spiders
imitate and hunt
their own species.
For example,
Portia (the bottom
spider), in the
picture, deceives
the female
Euryattus (the top
spider) by
mimicing the
mating ritual of
the Euryattus
spider which lives
in a rolled-up leaf
suspended by silk
cables. Of course
it is impossible for
a spider to come
by and employ
this "imitative
skill" all by itself.
The spider was
created by God to
have this property.