KENNEBEC JOURNAL • June 24, 2020
Sometimes I get chills when my mind homes in on the fact that spiders are sentient. Arachnologists curious to find out what spiders know and how they know it have shown that some species of wolf spiders, for example, develop individual personality traits involving bravery, timidity and learned social tasks. It’s also well-known that females of most species choose and reject males in courtship rituals and that among a few species, mates live together in the web and communicate with each other by vibrations of thread. ~ Dana Wilde