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TMS 2327: Stop, drop and collaborate

The Morning Stream

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I Hate Spider Legs, Right?

Spiders use hydraulic pressure, a fluid movement inside their bodies, to create pressure that causes them to be able to extend it again. There's a gland or or an organ inside the spider which handles all this pressure. But when the the spider's dead, it doesn't it can't control that hydraulic pressure any more. The muscles just take over and just, and just cause all the legs to curl up because that's all t they do.

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