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has first counted the number of its own legs and those of the ants, and
then compared the two. Seeing the difference, it understood that it would
have to get rid of them, and in a most conscious manner it made its own
extra legs resemble antennae.
There are several points to be borne in mind here. First of all, the
spider is physically a completely different creature from the ant. For the
Of the three insects in
the picture, only the two
to the sides are ants, the
middle one is a jumping
spider. The difference
between spiders and
ants is that spiders have
an extra pair of legs.