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Some jumping spiders show signs of thinking and planning while hunting their prey. More than thought possible before some studies. Nice picture.
They also appear to enter REM sleep! Excellent video on spider cognition:
https://youtu.be/_QF6kaOAuYg
They're learning....
tldr: YOU ARE PREY!!!!