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Milking spiders to make guitar strings in Madagascar (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 years ago by BlameThePeacock to c/offbeat

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I love Mattias Krantz and his wacky music projects.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's very cool, very interesting use of biomimicry.

I wonder if that's really the first time it's ever happened or someone else figured it out, that would be so rad if an early human was plucking spider web strings that disintegrated 200,000 years ago