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A Costa Rican pirate spider tricks closely related orb weaver spiders into “walking the plank,” right to their doom.
The little-known species called G. siquirres cleverly exploits the way other spiders make their webs to get a meal.
The hunting strategy comes as a total surprise, says Gustavo Hormiga , a biologist at George Washington University .
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