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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The claim that spiders can survive for a day trapped under a cup without external oxygen exchange is supported by literature on spider respiration and anoxia tolerance. Salt-marsh and other spiders are documented to undergo hypoxic comas and survive submersion or oxygen-deprived conditions for extended durations, making a one-day survival period well within established biological limits.

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Adaptations and Predispositions of Different Middle European Arthropod Taxa (Collembola, Araneae, Chilopoda, Diplopoda) to Flooding and Drought Conditions.

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Marx MT, Guhmann P, Decker P. Adaptations and Predispositions of Different Middle European Arthropod Taxa (Collembola, Araneae, Chilopoda, Diplopoda) to Flooding and Drought Conditions.. 2012. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani2040564

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.

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Pétillon J, Montaigne W, Renault D. Hypoxic coma as a strategy to survive inundation in a salt-marsh inhabiting spider.. 2009. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0127

Demonstrates that certain spiders can survive extended submersion and anoxic conditions by entering a physiological hypoxic coma.

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