Typical Homalonychus habitat From Wikimedia Commons: Homalonychus spiders are fairly common in such habitats, found under granite slabs resting on the soil surface, and/or under dead vegetation.
Imagine a movie in which our governor visits an alien planet and hunts down a group of alien military types, one by one, in the wilderness, until only one is left. Arnold has heat vision, of course, but one alien figures this out and covers itself with sand to disguise its own heat signature, thereby becoming invisible to this human hunter. Let's call the film Bizarro Predator. I think this is what our protagonist would look like. Except spiders are poikilotherms and don't have heat and are probably invisible to heat-sensing interstellar predators. D'oh.
Gergin Blagoev, Biodiversity Intitute of Ontario. Centre for Biodiversity Genomics. CBG Photography Group. Year: 2010. Contact: ccdbcol@uoguelph.ca.
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Imagine a movie in which our governor visits an alien planet and hunts down a group of alien military types, one by one, in the wilderness, until only one is left. Arnold has heat vision, of course, but one alien figures this out and covers itself with sand to disguise its own heat signature, thereby becoming invisible to this human hunter. Let's call the film Bizarro Predator. I think this is what our protagonist would look like. Except spiders are poikilotherms and don't have heat and are probably invisible to heat-sensing interstellar predators. D'oh.
Homalonychus theologus penultmate maleFrom Wikimedia Commons, with this description: Interesting "paired leg" stance first noted by Vetter & Cokendolpher (2000, Journal of Arachnology), with adjacent legs held together and outstretched rigidly. These authors suggested that this behavior may constitute cactus spine mimicry.