We all are afraid of spiders and have never seen a person who likes them.
But it seems the situation might change as spiders’ tiny paws are kind of cute that can melt anyone’s heart.
Arachnids have paw-like feet called Tarsus, which sits at the end of their legs and is used to grip. The colorful tufts of each pad help them to walk on vertical surfaces including grass and the pads are made up of nearly 600,000 strands of hair.
Spiders use their legs as their ears and nose to sense sounds and smell as they don’t have the antenna.
“Yes, van der Waals forces are most of the explanation” for why spiders have ‘furry paws’, says Raven.
“However, there are two ways to go with this: if you are big you can get those beautiful big, dense iridescent pads as with the Idiommata; or you can get lighter, thus needing less, as in the case of huntsman spiders, which are among the few spider groups – along with jumping spiders – that can run upside down on ceilings and dangle off them with a toad in their fangs.
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Web-spinning spiders have three claws while hunting spiders normally have two.
Artist Michael Pankratz said: “Through these macro lenses and their images, we’re able to travel into the world of our minuscule subjects, to go eye-to-eye with them in a direct encounter.”
“True, they’re experienced as larger than life – and yet the reality may be that it’s only in this manner that they’re seen and experienced as they genuinely are.”
“While my personal appreciation of tarantulas has perhaps been primarily aesthetic, my growing involvement with the very passionate and remarkably prolific hobby of tarantula-keeping has been an enormously important counterpart to my photography, helping me to approach a more full and appropriate understanding of these most fascinating animals.”
The photographer got rid of his fear of spiders and also raised more than 100 tarantulas and created one of the most unique foot fetish photo archives.