Kabir Dulichan, Walking, Waiting and Winning (ANIMAL 2023)

The images shown depict three different jumping spiders taken in the same afternoon. These images show the spiders in their natural habitat in a backyard in Canberra, Australia. The three photos show the rarely observed day-to-day behaviour of these minuscule creatures. It shows how they walk to find a good hunting area, wait for prey and then jump to win a tasty meal.

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