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Show Spiders Have Civic Problems, Spiders are not always solitary creatures. A scientist has lately found In Southorn India a species of spldor that builds spongy nest3 with outlying outly-ing webs, each nest lioing occupied by 40 to 100 spiders, wlt'i a largo excess ex-cess ot females; somotimes flvo or six nosts aro clustered together. Tho spiders not only live and woilc together, to-gether, but they share with ono an-oth'er an-oth'er any prey that may be captured, and some oven show maternal affection affec-tion approaching self-sacrifice. |