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RandyRemington
at Wed Jan 24 17:02:27 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by RandyRemington ]
The sample size was very small but on another forum there where a couple of cases of the more extreme appearing spiders (more reduced pattern, brighter colors) being the more wobbly. It would be great to hear from someone with a lot of spiders as to if this is a real trend. It could be that whatever chemical change the mutation brings about causes both the spider appearance and the wobble so that they would tend to become more extreme together.
It's also very interesting to hear about collections that report not to have wobbling and animals that start and stop wobbling at different points in their life. Could there be an environmental factor that can compensate for the spider tendency to wobble? Maybe high or low levels of some nutrient in their food?
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