Tales from a Recovered Arachnophobe

What if YOU could hear with your ankles, shed your skin to get smaller, squeeze seven kinds of silk from millions of tiny built-in spigots, or release a balloon from your hind end and sail 30,000 feet above the earth? What if you ate your mate after sex – or conversely evolved amazing strategies to avoid becoming nuptial fodder? What if you had to carry a hundred or so of your offspring around on your back?

Speaker: Gwen Heistadt, Audobon Canyon Ranch