A group researchers from Mumbai and Raigad recently discovered a new jumping spider with impressive hunting skills. The spider that belongs to Hasariinitribe was spotted in in Ratnagiri. It was found capturing a tadpole beneath a waterfall and dragging it away.
"For the first time in these parts it has been observed that a spider has hunted a tadpole whose size was slightly bigger than itself.
Our team witnessed it near Kumbharli ghat in Chiplun in Ratnagiri in the monsoon,"said arachnologist (expert in spiders), Javed Ahmed, the lead researcher of the team.
He said the team duly recorded it and presented a paper which has been published in the international scientific journal 'Peckhamia'. The discovery has been acknowledged by the world renowned authority on jumping spiders, Dr David E Hill.
The other researchers in Ahmed's team were naturalist Rajashree Khalap, wildlife photographer and naturalist Sumukha JN, environmentalist and surgeon Dr Krishna Mohan, and botanist Sagar Satpute, who photographed the spider preying on the tadpole.
The spider, despite rapid streams of water washing over the cliff when it was discovered, managed to drag away the tadpole to one of the many patches of mud dotting the cliff face.
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