Spiders can survive for a day trapped under a cup without external oxygen exchange
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Spiders possess physiological adaptations, including the ability to enter a protective hypoxic coma, that allow them to survive extended periods of oxygen deprivation, easily exceeding one day.
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Adaptations and Predispositions of Different Middle European Arthropod Taxa (Collembola, Araneae, Chilopoda, Diplopoda) to Flooding and Drought Conditions.
2012 · cited by 20
Discusses various arachnid adaptations to environmental extremes such as flooding, drought, and temporary oxygen deprivation.
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Hypoxic coma as a strategy to survive inundation in a salt-marsh inhabiting spider.
2009 · cited by 20
Demonstrates that certain spiders can survive extended submersion and anoxic conditions by entering a physiological hypoxic coma.