Kung Fu Mantis Vs Jumping Spider | Life Story | BBC

Mantids will eat anything that moves, including other mantids, the time to abandon this small insect is now open to attack by predators lurking in the undergrowth. Whether an individual

mantis

survives or not is partly a matter of luck, whether it is detected by a predator, whether it turns clockwise or clockwise. So far her luck has held up, but this hungry

jumping

spider

is still chasing her. A

mantis

is born with exceptional eyesight, but

spider

s are even better, although this young mantis cannot fly yet. Its long four legs evolved to catch prey and reach it there. There seems to be no escape but this mantis has an amazing line in the

kung

fu praying mantis style of self defense, of course it's all a ruse trying to appear bigger and confuse his enemy but he has a way of stay alive during its first hours. a significant achievement for a new improved insect, but there is still a long way to go, with a little luck, within two months it will be as big and beautiful as this mounted orchid or maybe not, after all, mantises are cannibals foreigners.