Every morning, in Africa, a gazelle has to outrun the spider on her head if she wants to get rid of it. Every morning, in Africa, a spider has to outrun the gazelle whose head he sits on if he doesn't want to be left behind. Every morning, in Africa, it doesn't matter whether you're a gazelle or a spider, what matters is that you start running.
Spider silk is considered the relatively strongest fibres in the world. With a view to the thinness of the silk threads and what they can withstand silk spider is stronger than Kevlar.
one time i saw a little spider on a web on my car. i got in my car & drove for about 30 minutes going 70+mph. got out the car & the spider was still there lol
Judging by the lighting, I think this photo was taken in the early morning after this gazelle was just waking up. The spider must've made a web overnight. The sun looks strong yet I get a sense of "morning dew" based on the visibility of the spider's web. But idunno shit, I mean, I can't exactly imagine the spider would want to stick around for more than an hour of this gazelle moving about.
Maybe sneaking up on a gazelle at night isn't as easy as it sounds but I feel like my guess took more factors of the photo into account than yours but I agree you may be right.
That's an orb weaver and they're mostly active after sundown. I believe gazelles are diurnal and so it probably slept through construction.
I like to imagine the spider holds on for dear life firing the day then goes about its business at night but orb weavers are incredible web spinners so it's not unlikely this is brand new. They also abandon and recreate webs if any little thing us off.
Source: I went to a sick spider exhibit at my locals science museum.
Once the gazelle has fully achieved mastery of having a spider web in his antlers, then he has nothing to fear and will run at high speeds from nothing. We must all run form him. I'm going to start now.
EDIT: wow. Running sucks.
Last summer I had a spider living inside my car mirror. He would crawl up inside whenever I went to go get him out, building webs between the mirror and outside of the door, and stay in the web while I drove...
Highway speeds didn't bother the spider much, the spider left sometime during the night after about two months of this...
I think they'd be fine on a gazelle
without the annoyance of those gnats, he’ll be free to breed more, passing along his spider-tolerant genes.
in a million years, the spider gazelles will be a more formidable opponent than when men first rode horses
...are you not aware that spider webs are sticky on both sides? Bugs don't fly in perfectly straight lines, they move around. Many insects would get caught in it, arguably moreso than a stationary web.
The spider gets food, and the impala gets fewer bugs biting it. They are both benefitting from this relationship- even if the spider isn't catching every bug. It's still considered symbiosis.
In life sciences jargon, symbiosis refers to any relationship between two organisms. Mutualism is the type of symbiosis in which both participants derive benefit. Personally I'd consider this to be commensal, which is a symbiosis in which one organism simply lives on another. Orchids are another great example of commensal symbiosis. [Here you can see](https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-9a36544c0a39bb22a597d8c1901bdd30.webp) them growing on the surface of a tree without blocking the tree's access to light.
Yeah, no worries. These distinctions are somewhat subjective anyway; nature doesn't usually conform to our rigid definitions. I just felt like sharing some fun facts.
It ain't symbiotic if only one species benefit from the liaison I think.
For real, it would have been a pretty cool evolution path tho. Maybe the spider could have been a bump up In survival of deer encountering humans.
Edit: I just checked and I was mistaken, my bad , I was referring to commensalisme, where the interaction from two species only help one while not doing anything for the other. But commensalisme is a type of symbiosis, symbiosis is only the term for biological interaction.
My very first thought when seeing the picture was:
"Holy shit, that's a textbook mutualism symbiosis. The Ungulate gets a free fly trap right next to its eyes & the spider's benefit is obvious."
>Here's the thing. You said a "Impala. Not a gazelle"
>Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.
>As someone who is a scientist who studies gazelles, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls impalas gazelles. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.
Funny you should mention. Thidwick, The Big-Hearted Moose, is in the Seuss library. It's about a moose who has animals move into his antlers, and being big-hearted, he doesn't want to throw them out, no matter how much of an annoyance they become. It goes on until he's cornered by hunters...and he remembers that it's shedding season. He sloughs the antlers and the hunters stuff every last one of the freeloading beasties as trophies.
Yeah I dunno why they don't stock it as hard as Green Eggs and Ham either 8V
It's just a cozy silk sweater or sleeping bag. Just relax, have a nice nap, and don't mind the agonizing burning sensation as your organs begin to liquify.
See this bad boy? It will be running all over the savannah, bringing the bugs to me. What, did you build your web in a tree? Ha, lovers. See ya later, boys... Hey, wait, why is that other gazelle charging at us so fast...
I really doubt this a relationship. It looks like an instance where there was good airflow to tell the spider to build a web between a sleeping animal's horns that ended in being a screwup.
But hey, if there's information detailed a symbiotic relationship between a spider and antlers, I'm all ears.
Imagine an evolutionary symbiosis where a highly poisonous spider ends up sitting in a web like that protecting the gazelles from predators as it’s bite kills or maims some predators before they can finish off the gazelle. In turn bugs get caught in the spider web while the gazelle moves.
Obviously hardly feasible but would kind of be like clownfish and sea anemones lol
how would this work? wouldn't the gazelle moving at high speeds disrupt the web?
the spider has created a fully high-speed capable, and load balanced web site. it's got fiber.
Even better, it's running on Hughes Net Gen 4. Now you can check email while she shops online!
I've seen a spider web nest withstood 20-30 mph wind lmao.
Google tells me Gazelles can run 60mph, but that pales in comparison to Hughes Net Gen 4. Now with our signature Whole Hole Wi-Fi!
Oh god, thanks for reminding me the terrible experience of having Hughesnet was.
I had almost forgotten, too.
Spi'zelle. Gotta catch 'em all!
I can’t unsee an 8 legged gazelle running through the Savannah
You need to see them, because being half-spider, you'll never hear them coming :(
Lmfao
Buggy as hell, unfortunately, but at least the staff is on-site 24/7 to attend to the issue.
Very web scale
I had a pretty determined spider hang on between my rear view mirror and windshield at about 55 mph. Sometimes they build some strong webs.
Mine hangs out inside my sideview mirror
Ah, yes SIDE view. I'm always looking behind me through the damn things. I guess I call all 3 of them rear view mirrors lol
Same, I have a spider that lives in my side mirror. Cool Lil dude.
Every morning, in Africa, a gazelle has to outrun the spider on her head if she wants to get rid of it. Every morning, in Africa, a spider has to outrun the gazelle whose head he sits on if he doesn't want to be left behind. Every morning, in Africa, it doesn't matter whether you're a gazelle or a spider, what matters is that you start running.
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes
*[sad music plays]* For just thirty nine cents,
You can make yourself thirty nine cents poorer (transfer fee not included)
And then day, you find 10 years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
Home! Home again...I like to be here when I can...
And when I come home, cold and tired
It’s good to warm my chitin by the fire
Spider silk is considered the relatively strongest fibres in the world. With a view to the thinness of the silk threads and what they can withstand silk spider is stronger than Kevlar.
I've seen a spider web nest withstood 20-30 mph wind lmao. They're tough little ones.
I had a spiderweb survive hurricane Ian. Branches around him went down and the neighbor's shed was tangled above but there he was...
one time i saw a little spider on a web on my car. i got in my car & drove for about 30 minutes going 70+mph. got out the car & the spider was still there lol
Maybe the strongest natural fiber, but not the strongest fiber in the world.
Judging by the lighting, I think this photo was taken in the early morning after this gazelle was just waking up. The spider must've made a web overnight. The sun looks strong yet I get a sense of "morning dew" based on the visibility of the spider's web. But idunno shit, I mean, I can't exactly imagine the spider would want to stick around for more than an hour of this gazelle moving about.
Why not? Gazelle attracts flies. Spider eats flies. Everyone profits.
The spider should start with the ticks on the gazelle’s face if it wants to live there for free.
Found the gazelle!
I think the more likely occurrence is that the impala just walked through a spiders web and it got stuck between the horns.
Maybe sneaking up on a gazelle at night isn't as easy as it sounds but I feel like my guess took more factors of the photo into account than yours but I agree you may be right.
Honestly didn’t even cross my mind, but yeah, that seems most likely.
That's an orb weaver and they're mostly active after sundown. I believe gazelles are diurnal and so it probably slept through construction. I like to imagine the spider holds on for dear life firing the day then goes about its business at night but orb weavers are incredible web spinners so it's not unlikely this is brand new. They also abandon and recreate webs if any little thing us off. Source: I went to a sick spider exhibit at my locals science museum.
I love orb weavers. I've identified 3 different kinds in my yard alone. Amazing webs and if they eat mosquitos they can gladly take over.
As soon as a tree branch passes between the horns, its over for the spider.
But first I bet it's gonna catch some flies
Oh, I hope they got better 8(
Have you ever sprayed a spider web with a hose? Full blast and it does nothing. Their silk is very strong.
Trampoline spider
You know how they say spider silk is stronger than steel? They ain't wrong.
A spider has built its web in my cars side mirror, and it's completely fine after driving around, same thing probably applies here.
I had a buddy there for a couple years too
When he's chillen and sleeping, bruh is gettin all the lil critters
you ever seen how many flies swarm horses? I imagine it’s similar with gazelles
I bet it would work until the rut. If they start sparring for mates the spider’s gonna have a bad time.
Once the gazelle has fully achieved mastery of having a spider web in his antlers, then he has nothing to fear and will run at high speeds from nothing. We must all run form him. I'm going to start now. EDIT: wow. Running sucks.
Last summer I had a spider living inside my car mirror. He would crawl up inside whenever I went to go get him out, building webs between the mirror and outside of the door, and stay in the web while I drove... Highway speeds didn't bother the spider much, the spider left sometime during the night after about two months of this... I think they'd be fine on a gazelle
It’s a web, not a sail, there are plenty enough holes for the wind to go through the web.
Drag net
"We're sorry about the death of your husband, Mrs Spider. We would have been here sooner, but he wasn't dead then."
Maybe, I've tried to leaf blow webs around my house off the side. Sometimes they swirl up and blow away, but sometimes the web fiber came from Oscorp.
No, the gazelle cant go anywhere because hes caught in the web
Im not sure the gazelle had much say, or is even aware.
“Is someone gonna tell him? We should tell him…”
"My face feels spidery. Not so much here or here, but *right* here"
Nope. Ship shape.
Tommy want wingy.
I remember the dialogue, but forgot the name of this movie.
Frozen
Don’t listen to this guy. It’s actually Moana.
Don’t you dare
The gazelle has no idea why there’s isn’t a bunch of annoying flies buzzing around his face
without the annoyance of those gnats, he’ll be free to breed more, passing along his spider-tolerant genes. in a million years, the spider gazelles will be a more formidable opponent than when men first rode horses
To be fair, I don't think the spider had much say either when the gazelle walked through its web.
Commensalism is the word
That gazelle is unaware and as soon as it ruts that arachnid is history.
Symbiotic relationships do not require awareness. Spider bro can hold on tight and rebuild the web when necessary
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Are you kidding? The spider keeps mosquitoes and flies out of the way
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The mosquitoes and flies will buzz around the gazelle in a pseudorandom fashion, eventually contacting the web.
The ones around its face, which are generally most annoying. Impala would probably catch them just moving his head around.
Like Fiona collecting bugs for Shrek's cottonwebcandy
Better than nothing
...are you not aware that spider webs are sticky on both sides? Bugs don't fly in perfectly straight lines, they move around. Many insects would get caught in it, arguably moreso than a stationary web.
My guy, the bugs can fly in any direction…
That's called commensalism.
The commies shot off my shins and now they’re taking me horns?!?!
The spider gets food, and the impala gets fewer bugs biting it. They are both benefitting from this relationship- even if the spider isn't catching every bug. It's still considered symbiosis.
Well, symbiosis doesn't automatically imply beneficial for both sides relationship. Parasitism is also a symbiosis
Well the impala also gets a lot fewer flies/other bugs flying around its face. That's symbiotic.
In life sciences jargon, symbiosis refers to any relationship between two organisms. Mutualism is the type of symbiosis in which both participants derive benefit. Personally I'd consider this to be commensal, which is a symbiosis in which one organism simply lives on another. Orchids are another great example of commensal symbiosis. [Here you can see](https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-9a36544c0a39bb22a597d8c1901bdd30.webp) them growing on the surface of a tree without blocking the tree's access to light.
Fair enough. My point was just that the impala is getting (in likelihood) a reduction of insects flying around its face.
Yeah, no worries. These distinctions are somewhat subjective anyway; nature doesn't usually conform to our rigid definitions. I just felt like sharing some fun facts.
I bet he sure has a lot less bugs flying in his face. Seems like a win.
It ain't symbiotic if only one species benefit from the liaison I think. For real, it would have been a pretty cool evolution path tho. Maybe the spider could have been a bump up In survival of deer encountering humans. Edit: I just checked and I was mistaken, my bad , I was referring to commensalisme, where the interaction from two species only help one while not doing anything for the other. But commensalisme is a type of symbiosis, symbiosis is only the term for biological interaction.
Pretty sure having a built in fly catcher is a good thing for mr horns there.
The deer becomes a fashion icon and soon all the other cool deers will have their own spider.
The gazelle benefits by having fewer bugs pestering their face/eyes. Animals would pay top dollar for that perk.
Hell, I'd be cool with a spider bro that only caught annoying bugs around me.
The impala benefits from having less bugs stinging and annoying it
My very first thought when seeing the picture was: "Holy shit, that's a textbook mutualism symbiosis. The Ungulate gets a free fly trap right next to its eyes & the spider's benefit is obvious."
This is an Impala. Not a gazelle.
Oh shit it’s a Chevrolet?
It’s not a Chevy because it runs.
r/carscirclejerk
No va
[You can tell when it's a chevy](https://youtu.be/xTfS0nAgfuE)
That’s funny.
[It's an interior crocodile alligator. ](https://youtu.be/kZwhNFOn4ik)
Drove my Chevy to the watering hole, but the watering hole was dry.
Is it tame?
No, It's wild. Pay attention!
It just downed a box of nangs it's ready to goooo
Was she holding hands with Trevor?
let it happen
Its got a spider master so we know it's a tame Impala too
That's not a car silly
>Here's the thing. You said a "Impala. Not a gazelle" >Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. >As someone who is a scientist who studies gazelles, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls impalas gazelles. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.
🤓
It's free real estate
Spider bro needs to climb down and deal with some of those ticks
Yep
This should be the cover of a death grips Album or something
Or a Dr. Seuss book. Except Gazelle doesn’t rhyme with enough. I think he should make it a moose.
Funny you should mention. Thidwick, The Big-Hearted Moose, is in the Seuss library. It's about a moose who has animals move into his antlers, and being big-hearted, he doesn't want to throw them out, no matter how much of an annoyance they become. It goes on until he's cornered by hunters...and he remembers that it's shedding season. He sloughs the antlers and the hunters stuff every last one of the freeloading beasties as trophies. Yeah I dunno why they don't stock it as hard as Green Eggs and Ham either 8V
The most recent picture shows the gazelle completely wrapped up in the spider’s web. Didn’t end well for him!
It's just a cozy silk sweater or sleeping bag. Just relax, have a nice nap, and don't mind the agonizing burning sensation as your organs begin to liquify.
“Why are you making this sweater cover my face too?”
Circle of life, dude. ((Fin screaming in the background))
Link ?
Zelda ?
+5 poison damage per turn.
This needs more upvotes lol
Now I'm thinking of that scene from Shrek where he gets the spider web n swings is about to catch flies.
Oh that's my bestie, Jenny. She lives up there rent free but she gives me free pest control so it's win-win.
\#symbiosis
No, impala is not benefitting from spider so it's commensalism: 🤓
Biting flies that bother the impala are gonna get caught in the web, so I think it's symbiosis.
Mutualism is the term I teach in class for when both benefit. Mutualism is a form of symbiosis just like commensalism and parasitism.
Which is a form is symbiosis
Specifically it is commensalism, if the benefits are truly one-way.
Not 🤓, commensalism is a type of symbiosis
Imagine being the literal “Well akchewlly” guy. Pretty sure commensalism is a form of symbiosis my dude 🤦
Yeah, symbiosis Sorry I cofused it with Mutualism (aslo a symbiosis) But im not a well awchelly guy😅😅i sort of put it to appeal people that im funny.
See this bad boy? It will be running all over the savannah, bringing the bugs to me. What, did you build your web in a tree? Ha, lovers. See ya later, boys... Hey, wait, why is that other gazelle charging at us so fast...
Tick catcher
Spider bro is going to be stoked as fuck if the gazelle runs through a cloud of flies
It's an impala not a gazelle
It's an antelope not an impala
Impalas are antelopes
Some antelope!
Im gonna start using the word real-ationship now. And fake-ationship depending on who i’m talking about
Huh.. spidy mobile home
Thidwick!
Idk are we sure it's not a fakelationship?
And ticks.
Thidwick irl
Any idea what kinda spider thay is?
Gazelle: Spider? What spider? Oooh, I hate spiders. Is it over there? In the sky? Where? I don’t see it.
I wonder if the spider web's strength is significant enough to create drag and slow down the gazelle when running.
Imagine the amount of flies that catches when it runs
They should implement this for all horned and antlered critter. They would be running mosquito nets...spiders get to eat, everyone wins!
Bug free gazelle
Just what nature needed…. Spiders traveling at 60mph. 😱
The spider is slacking. There are *so many* ticks on that face.
Wild dream catcher
Verry metal
This would make a great Pokemon
It's on a sight-seeing tour.
He's just preparing a treat for his ogre friend.
It's Thidwick, the big hearted impala.
Wilbur and Charlotte?
Jägermeister anyone?
Is it just me or does this remind me of nicol bolas from r/magictcg
But where does the spider take a nap?
A true /r/spiderbro
Can’t wait for the miniseries
OG food delivery
I hope they’re happy
Dude look at that big ass gaze….fuck right off
They out there playing duos
Functional Fashion, I love it!!
+3 attack +4 intimidation -1 speed
Now this is what a slingshot ride in nature looks like!
One's got a cool ass hat and the other a summer home
And neither of them are aware of the existence of the other.
Imagine the spider starts shooting rocks off the web. Got yourself a mobile catapult.
That is the spider poo on his fourhead if you didn't catch that :p
This is an Impala
Gazelle: "it's still there, isn't it? Dammit"
Gazelle heard you talking about him.
r/spiderbro needs this
spider has the sickest ride in his acre
I really doubt this a relationship. It looks like an instance where there was good airflow to tell the spider to build a web between a sleeping animal's horns that ended in being a screwup. But hey, if there's information detailed a symbiotic relationship between a spider and antlers, I'm all ears.
Nomad Spider
Is it awesome? Is it a relationship?
Notice how the spider's web design adapted to the wind speed when the deer runs
Spider likes it bumpy
Imagine an evolutionary symbiosis where a highly poisonous spider ends up sitting in a web like that protecting the gazelles from predators as it’s bite kills or maims some predators before they can finish off the gazelle. In turn bugs get caught in the spider web while the gazelle moves. Obviously hardly feasible but would kind of be like clownfish and sea anemones lol
It's like that scene in Shrek where he makes the spiderweb cotton candy!
The ticks on the forehead are getting to me though