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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JustKim" data-source="post: 4284700" data-attributes="member: 5478">I love spiders, so I'm going to help make this idea more authentic. I think authentic spiders are better, whether you love them or you're terrified of them.So the spider jumps rather far, it should belong to the family salticidae, jumping spiders. A few things are distinctive about salticidae spiders. While most spiders have small, crude eyes suitable for detecting movement, salticidae have 6 crude eyes and one very large pair of eyes in the front of their head that are able to focus images and distinguish color. When most spiders detect a hand reaching for them, what they see is some vaguely large thing coming toward them. When a salticidae spider detects you reaching out for it, it sees your hand, it sees the arm behind it, it sees your face and it may pick out your entire body from your surroundings.So a jumping spider's visual awareness is absolutely incredible. Because of their ability to discern what's going on, jumping spiders are famous for their tendency to raise their front legs as a warning. They see exactly what you're doing and they're not having any of it.Jumping spiders also use their webs to drag a tether behind them when they jump. If they don't like where they end up, they can climb back along the tether very rapidly.So if a giant undead jumping spider leaps at someone's face and misses, it can zip back from where it came. A failure to catch face doesn't expose the spider.Another interesting fact you could play up in a giant spider is that a salticidae's eyes seem to change color depending on where it's looking. When a salticidae's eyes are completely black, it is looking straight into your eyes.Visually, jumping spiders are very "hairy" and camouflaged to their surroundings, whether grass or flowers or gravel. They don't weave sheet webs but they do make coccoons and leave a lot of abandoned tethers.When it comes to undeath and decay, here's a quick run through of spider anatomy. Their brains are basically two pancakes under the surface of the cephalothorax (the front segment) connected by nerves- like a flattened, lobotomized human brain. A spider's stomach is actually in its cephalothorax, behind its mouth, and intestine runs through the narrow waist connecting the two segments into much of their abdomen (back segment). All along the top of the abdomen is the spider's heart, which pumps copper-based blood that oxidizes green instead of red. A spider's respiratory system typically include "book lungs"- imagine a book with hollow pages, and that each of the pages fill with air and fan out from the spine, then fold back down like an accordian. These lungs are at the front and bottom of the abdomen where you're not likely to see them, unless the spider is on your face. Finally, the back and bottom quarter of the abdomen is made up of the sexual organs and silk glands.Hooray for spiders!</blockquote>

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