If you’re a learned student of unusual spider locomotion, this little tumbler may remind you of the golden wheel spider native to the Namib desert, which cartwheels downhill to evade predators. Inspired by Rechenberg, Jager named the spider after him. Inspired by his find, Rechenberg designed a robot called Tabbot based on the spider’s movement. Peter Jager, a spider expert at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt for identification. Ingo Rechenberg, who was immediately captivated by the spider’s movement and passed the critter on to Dr. In an odd twist of fate, the flic-flac spider was first discovered in the Moroccan desert by German bionics expert Prof. This escape maneuver, which can spin the arachnid forward at around 6 feet per second, has already inspired a concept for robots that tumble across loose sand. It uses an incredibly agile hand spring motion to evade predators: It cartwheels. A new species of spider, dubbed the “flic-flac spider” or Cebrennus rechenbergi, from the Erg Chebbi region of Morocco has been described in the science journal Zootaxa. If anybody ever decides to start an arthropod olympiad, we now know which species will be a contender for the floor exercise. Weird Feature(s): Hand-spring getaway, totally tubular houses ![]() ![]() Range: The super sandy Erg Chebbi region of Morocco
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