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This project studies how orb spiders adapt their webs based on environmental stability, focusing on the energetic costs of web-building and how these costs influence prey capture and structural integrity. It aims to provide insights into animal behavior and biomimetic design.
Spider orb webs are semi-permanent records of foraging behaviour making them ideal to examine the interaction of environmental conditions and behavioural decisions.
The spider adjusts the detailed geometry of the web to a wide range of factors in order to tune the primary function of the web, prey-capture, while at the same time ensuring its structural integrity.
Here I propose to study how orb spiders adapt their webs to the stability of the environment.
Spiders that invest more are expected to…
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