The name of that spider in Brazilian Portuguese means boner spider. That is an accident and coincidence of the language, not a typo nor innuendo. The words that make up its name got their current meaning independently from the fact that its bite causes acute priapism in humans (look it up).
Anyway, the literal translation of its name to English can be either arming spider (the most correct and direct, and it's as in: it gets your dick armed and ready), or pitching spider (less correct, and as in: it gets your tent pitched). The original meaning in Portuguese is due to the spider assuming an aggressive stance when threatened (an "armed" stance).
It somewhat comforts me to think that most invertebrates are basically NPC instinct machines with no complex thought or emotion, because yikes is their world horrifying!
I guess I kind of assume it based on the low number of neurons that they have in their brains. Cephalopods like octopus are an obvious exception to this, but they have about 500 million neurons in their brains, which is similar in number to a small mammal. Most invertebrates have less than 1 million.
Right, but bees for example have been shown in studies to like to play for the sake of having fun & have unique personalities. Maube it's not the amount of neurons, but the experience of living that makes something concious. Though, nobody can know for sure
That is true. Bees are on the higher level for arthropods I think. To a certain degree, it's how the brain is wired. I remember reading something about a biologist who was working with crickets and he accidentally injured one. At first, he felt bad, but then the cricket started eating itself. It's hard, because it's a continuum between animals that do act purely on instinct and animals varying levels of complexity in thought and emotion.
At first I thought it was a crab
Technically you were close.
A land crab, if you will
COCONUT CRAB!
Cancerifification of EVERRRRRRYTHIIING
It's the last of him.
Brazilian wandering spider with cordycepts
Brazilian raging boner spider with cordyceps
FTFY
Is this a reference something I’m not getting or just a random penis joke?
The name of that spider in Brazilian Portuguese means boner spider. That is an accident and coincidence of the language, not a typo nor innuendo. The words that make up its name got their current meaning independently from the fact that its bite causes acute priapism in humans (look it up).
Anyway, the literal translation of its name to English can be either arming spider (the most correct and direct, and it's as in: it gets your dick armed and ready), or pitching spider (less correct, and as in: it gets your tent pitched). The original meaning in Portuguese is due to the spider assuming an aggressive stance when threatened (an "armed" stance).
I think the wandering spider’s venom can give you an extreme erection lasting hours or days or something.
Baboon spider I think
Invertebrates live the hardest lives and die in the most horrible ways imaginable.
Very good point. What a way to go..
It somewhat comforts me to think that most invertebrates are basically NPC instinct machines with no complex thought or emotion, because yikes is their world horrifying!
How do you know?
I guess I kind of assume it based on the low number of neurons that they have in their brains. Cephalopods like octopus are an obvious exception to this, but they have about 500 million neurons in their brains, which is similar in number to a small mammal. Most invertebrates have less than 1 million.
Right, but bees for example have been shown in studies to like to play for the sake of having fun & have unique personalities. Maube it's not the amount of neurons, but the experience of living that makes something concious. Though, nobody can know for sure
That is true. Bees are on the higher level for arthropods I think. To a certain degree, it's how the brain is wired. I remember reading something about a biologist who was working with crickets and he accidentally injured one. At first, he felt bad, but then the cricket started eating itself. It's hard, because it's a continuum between animals that do act purely on instinct and animals varying levels of complexity in thought and emotion.
oh lawd he comin
Makes that TV show seem a bit too real...
Baboon spider of some sort, poor thing
They have a Joel and an Ellie?
Amazing how fungi makes delecouis cheese for me also torments and tortures other creatures like this
I know it's a tarantula, but since it looks like a crab, Can cordyceps infect crabs?
Yep
Sick album cover for 2026
This is straight-up nightmare fuel, and I love it.
Spidercrab sounds like the shittiest B movie ever made and I'm here for it