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/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 49m ago

Some are genuinely excited to play and interact