An observational study of ballooning in large spiders: Nanoscale multifibers enable large spiders' soaring flight.
The physical mechanism of aerial dispersal of spiders, "ballooning behavior," is still unclear because of the lack of serious scientific observations and experiments. Therefore, as a first step in clarifying the phenomenon, we studied the ballooning behavior of relatively large spiders (he...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2018-06-01
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| Series: | PLoS Biology |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6001951?pdf=render |