"Batesian mimicry" is very common among jumping spiders, whereby the edible spiders mimic the body shapes
and/or behavior of other small creatures that are protected by toxic chemicals, spines, stingers, etc.
This jumper in Panama is waving its front legs like an ant's antennae while it eats a small fly.
Phiale sp.
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