{"id":301,"date":"2021-05-17T19:47:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T23:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/?p=301"},"modified":"2021-05-30T22:14:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T02:14:12","slug":"so-you-think-you-can-dance-peacock-spider-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/so-you-think-you-can-dance-peacock-spider-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"So You Think You Can Dance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To make their potential mates fall in love with them, some animals go through such lengths as to put on elaborate dance performances that can be just as appealing to watch as ballet or tango. Today we take a look at such dancing animals, called peacock spiders, and see just how well of dancers they can be.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-301-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2021\/05\/so-you-think-you-can-dance_-.mp3?_=1\"><\/source><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2021\/05\/so-you-think-you-can-dance_-.mp3\">https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2021\/05\/so-you-think-you-can-dance_-.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><div class=\"h5p-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"h5p-iframe-17\" class=\"h5p-iframe\" data-content-id=\"17\" style=\"height:1px\" src=\"about:blank\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"transcript\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/b><\/p>\n<h3><strong>FURTHER READINGS&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>Featured article<\/strong><\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0025390\">&ldquo;Multi-Modal Courtship in the Peacock Spider, Maratus volans (O.P.-Cambridge, 1874)&rdquo; (2011, <em>PLoS One<\/em>)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>More facts about <\/strong><\/em><strong>Martus <\/strong><em><strong>peacock spiders<\/strong><\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/animaldiversity.org\/accounts\/Maratus\/\">Short, A. 2019. &ldquo;Maratus&rdquo;, Animal Diversity Web<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><em>Video of <\/em>Martus <em>dancing:<\/em><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/v3HlwwJG85c\">Nature on PBS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><em>Music provided by <\/em><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PIzAuv9gucU\">DayFox<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><em>Feature image by<\/em><\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=31209998\">Jurgen Otto, CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"gtx-trans\">\n<div class=\"gtx-trans-icon\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To make their potential mates fall in love with them, some animals go through such lengths as to put on elaborate dance performances that can be just as appealing to watch as ballet or tango. Today we take a look at such dancing animals, called peacock spiders, and see just how well of dancers they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5329,"featured_media":319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-season-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2021\/05\/MalePeacockSpider.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/languageoflove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}