• ivanafterall@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Since there aren’t any spider scientists present, I’ll take a stab at it:

      This is probably some kind of bullshit oversimplification. There was probably like one study by some professor who loves LSD and spiders at a small rural college in New Zealand who published a paper in Spider Science Journal. And it’s not singing so much as some very complex and scientific spider stuff that I won’t bore you with.

      Hopefully I’m just cynical and wrong and there’s a little spider Pavarotti out there.

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        1 year ago

        That pretty much hits the nail on the head. Most of this X does “human like™️” stuff Y is anthropomorphism par excellence. Usually some form of instinctual behaviour or even simple results of basic physiological processes are compared to stuff that humans do as a high level cognitive process (singing, talking, etc.) so that it generates clicks and draws attention.
        This paints a completely wrong picture of animal (or even plant) behaviour, spreads misinformation and overshadows the actually interesting scientific discoveries.