Orb-Weaver Spiders - a bridge to more opportunities
Sexual dimorphism is a concept where-in the males and the females of the same species show vast differences in terms of their size, color or behavior. One such unmistakable example of size based dimorphism is amongst a group of spiders known as the orb-weaver spiders. There are many species of these orb-weavers and all of them seem to exhibit this morphological difference in quite a dramatic way. The males seem to be less than one-tenth the size of a female, looking more like her meal....