Tracking the Sydney Funnel-web spider
Sometime this summer, Caitlin Creak will be tacking tiny tracking systems slightly larger than a rice grain to the heads of eight male Sydney Funnel-web spiders Atrax robustus to see where they wander at night.
Sometime this summer, Caitlin Creak will be tacking tiny tracking systems slightly larger than a rice grain to the heads of eight male Sydney Funnel-web spiders Atrax robustus to see where they wander at night.
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