Flickr. NASA on The Commons' Photostream. Éditez facilement vos photos dans votre navigateur grâce à Picnik. Vietnamese spiders. When I was in Australia a couple of years ago I came across a spider ant, which is a species of ant which mimics a spider. I'd heard that there are also spiders which mimic ants, and lo and behold when I was in Cuc Phuong national park near Hanoi I happened across one! You can see that it's captured the shape of the ant body perfectly, and even the stripes on the belly. I've also come across an ant mimic jumping spider in Thailand and one in Cambodia called the ant-like crab spider. I'm not really sure why a spider would want to mimic an ant, unless it makes it easier to sneak up on prey. For that matter, I'm not sure why an ant would want to mimic a spider, either - most animals avoid ants because of their powerful bites, so I can't imagine that it gets much protection from pretending to be something else which is also dangerous.
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