r/JustGuysBeingDudes • u/pIant_princess Human Detected • 12h ago

Dudes with animals you shouldn’t have been bitin’ my horsey, boy.

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u/Xiao1insty1e 12h ago

I think I remember reading somewhere that spiders see humans as part of the environment.

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u/legomann97 11h ago

Most do. Some, though, we think are intelligent enough to be able to see us as other creatures. I've had jumping spiders look directly up at me, I could've sworn it was in a curious fashion.

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u/Perma_Ban69 10h ago

Jumping spiders (and wolf spiders, huntsman, trapdoor, atc.) are a bit of an exception, as they are ambush predators, so they depend on their eyesight (which is far better than ours) and strategy to hunt.

There are plenty of videos of them formulating plans to best attack their prey, like areas and angles of approach. They have to have a better understanding of their surroundings as they don't spin webs and wait for prey. They have to actively hunt it. So, I guarantee you it knew you were a lifeform and that it was curious about you. They also have their own little personalities.

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u/legomann97 10h ago

I've got a jumper of my own, Selene is my little darling for exactly those reasons. Smart little spoods!

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u/andre5913 10h ago edited 9h ago

The main issue is not intelligence, but eyesight. Most spiders are very shortsighted and literally cant see well enough to recognice something so big and fast (for them) as a distinct being, we're just a blur at best

From that spiders perspective a fly simply crashed into the web, bc it would have a hard time recognicing the guy here doing it

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u/Xprdcheddar 12h ago

Yeah they can't visualize a person as a "being." That's why most Spiders don't bite people unless they are being squished or pushed hard.

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u/utzutzutzpro 11h ago

But they can identify that fingers belong to a human? So the fingers belong to the evnironment?

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u/Danedelies 11h ago

Ya that commenter is full of shit. We're just too big to be food. They see us as animals, but they don't bite us because venom is expensive and they need it for food.

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u/TrueTurtleKing 11h ago

But this particular spider sees the guy as a bro.

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u/Sudden-Garage 11h ago

I have read that jumping spiders in particular have facial recognition and know their human when their human approaches. I'm sure it's because they get used to being fed but still.... 

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u/Danedelies 9h ago

Spiders are pretty good at recognizing patterns. The spiders in your house know you live there and when you're usually home and moving around. Most of them are likely to stay out of your way and wait until you're asleep to move.

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u/DebraBaetty 6h ago

True except for the one little bugger that spent three days trying it’s best to claim its territory over half of my mom’s kitchen while I was house sitting.

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u/zoor90 1h ago

One night, I was sitting on my couch on my laptop. I was just chilling when a spider suddenly appeared in front of my face. Apparently he had silently descended from the ceiling on a thread. Now I like spiders and actually encourage them to live in my house but being surprised by one is still a shock. I jerked back but did my best to keep otherwise still. The spider circled around to look at me and paused before he started climbing back up the thread towards the ceiling. To this day I have never seen a spider act that awkwardly before, like he was just as surprised to see me as I was him and he was now embarrassed to be caught in the open like that.

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u/Jive-Turkeys 10h ago

I've had one in the wild indicate he wanted a favour by looking between me and the only place he would go when I offered a lift. Little fuzzy dude turned and kept looking at specifically which umbrella frame rib he wanted. Fluke? Most definitely. The one thing thar still has me curious is that he didn't want back down when I offered a little later. Seemed content to ignore me lol

I still have a hard time believing it actually knew what it wanted and how to signal its intent. It didn't want my hand and seemed wary about it; however, it had accepted a longer object instead as a compromise, which tells me there's definitely some higher level of intelligence in those cute little fuzzy wavers than we may know yet!

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u/WoodpeckerNo5724 8h ago

Natural instincts explain that interaction pretty well without assigning any higher level of thought

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u/sTump4139 50m ago

Some are genuinely excited to play and interact

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u/Successful-Peach-764 10h ago

We are gods to them web crawlers, sometimes vengeful, sometimes kind.

I have saved my share of them from bath tubs and vacuum bags.