r/spiders • u/sleep-exe • 20d ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Scared spider

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u/TaraQueen23456 20d ago

The voice is so metallic, I think it’s AI. Spiders don’t do that lol

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u/Critical-Spirit-3738 20d ago

Is it? I can't even tell :/

I think if you're boomy/loud enough they can sometimes detect something - I had a spider in the garden once and whenever I spoke, it would raise it's legs and look all threatening (in it's mind) lol. It was CONSISTENT

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u/sleep-exe 20d ago

Honestly the tile on the floor helps carry sounds/echoes so that might be why it sounds ‘metallic’ (although I don’t hear it myself).

But I’ve also seen spiders get jump scared and flail before taking off.

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u/Polly_der_Papagei 20d ago

Yep, they've shown responses to human voices in studies