Clashing of 2 female mangrove jumpers

We find here how a female mangrove jumper have marked differences in her aggression depending on her whereabouts. When place on a flat open leave, one of the female played safe and decided to retreat without any engagement but the same female showed an increased aggresive behaviour and even winning the bout when she was allowed to be placed first in a more nested place. Undoubtly this behaviour is found throughout the animal kingdom, boldness and aggression is raised when we're protecting our own territory.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• mangrove jumper
• jumping spider
• salticidae

[jordanang1601]

Not bad.try to put 2 male mangrove jumpers together and see what happens

[adrianlwkeat]

@jordanang1601 u can see that in the first clip on your right

[adrianlwkeat]

hmm...than that hyllus diardi must be quite a small one. I doubt the full sized adult females would be detered by a small mangrove jumper. But i do agree that a mangrove jumper is one tough jumper.

[keeyk118b]

@adrianlwkeat the hyllus was a good size 13mm. it was not really afraid of the mangrove jumper .it just moved away slowly .i was just suprised the mangrove did not flee in terror like most other species of jumpers would.

[keeyk118b]

they have the largest jaws porportionate to body size of any jumping spider i have come across. i have seen mangrove jumpers face off with hyllus diardi and successfully back off the larger spider.larger jumping spiders like plexipus paykulli will flee immediately.