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that caused the spider and the prey to bounce under the platform an 
estimated 5-10 times/sec as if it were an inverted trampoline. The 
function of these bouncing movements is not clear. 
Holding the freed prey in its chelicerae, the spider carried it to 
the retreat, entered the mouth of the retreat, turned 180°, and began 
to eat facing downward. If another victim fell onto the platform 
the spider’s first reaction was often to attach a line to the platform 
near the retreat. It then attached this line to the prey being eaten, 
and slowly rotated the prey so that several loops of thread were 
placed around it (almost everything diguetids do associated with 
spinning is quite slow and clumsy when compared with the orb 
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Figure 2. Mature female Diguetia albolincata wrapping a cockroach. 
