Neatorama » peacock http://www.neatorama.com The Neat Side of the Web Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:58:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Peacock Spider http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/05/peacock-spider/ http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/05/peacock-spider/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:52:11 +0000 Johnny Cat http://www.neatorama.com/?p=27325 Photo: Jurgen Otto

Photo: Jurgen Otto

This is a kind of jumping spider, and it’s only about 5mm in size.  The males have a colorful pattern on flaps that extend from their abdomen during breeding/mating.  In addition to this, they raise their back pair of legs and dance from side to side to win over their plain brown females.

Only found in Australia, they were classified as species Maratus volans because people originally thought the flap was for gliding after jumping. Wiki

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This wedding dress valued at 1.5 million dollars is made from 2009 peacock tail feathers! It was unveiled at a recent wedding expo in Nanjing, China. Link -via J-Walk Blog

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