國立自然科學博物館

敏捷、兇狠、很恐怖！大概就是我們對蜘蛛的印象吧，其實蜘蛛與其他動物一樣擁有母愛的天性。蜘蛛是母系社會的生物，擇偶、生子、育幼的主導權都在母蜘蛛手上，因此母蜘蛛體型通常遠大於雄蜘蛛。許多母蜘蛛具有護卵、護子的行為，會盤據在卵周圍抵禦外來的侵略者。貓蛛（貓蛛科）會織出小搖籃，而金姬蛛（姬蛛科金姬蛛屬）把卵囊帶在身邊，片刻不離身，直到幼蛛孵化能夠獨立生活，只能說天下的媽媽都是一樣的。

Agile, fierce, and terrifying! These are some of the adjectives we use to describe spiders. However, spiders, like other animals, have a maternal nature. Female spiders play the dominant role in selecting a mate and producing and rearing offspring and, thus, tend to be larger than males. Many female spiders stay near their eggs, protecting them from danger. Lynx spiders form a small cradle while comb-footed spiders carry their egg sacs until the eggs hatch and their offspring can live independently. It can only be said that mothers are all the same.

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