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Spider uses web to hoist pebble in Denmark

By Ben Hooper
A Danish man found a pebble outside his woodshed suspended by a spider's web after apparently being hoisted into the air during web construction. Nicholas Steenberg/YouTube video screenshot
A Danish man found a pebble outside his woodshed suspended by a spider's web after apparently being hoisted into the air during web construction. Nicholas Steenberg/YouTube video screenshot

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SONDERBORG, Denmark, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- A Danish man shared video showing the pebble hoisted three feet off the ground by a spider's web after being used as a corner weight by the arachnid.

Nicholas Steenberg of Sonderborg posted a video to YouTube showing the pebble hanging in the air by strands of spider web outside his woodshed.

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He said the spider apparently used the pebble as a corner weight for the web and it ended up hoisted into the air.

"I found a pebble at the base of this spider web that was used as a corner weight to construct the web. It was incredible to imagine how it hoisted the rock up 3 feet above the ground. This shows the amazing strength and wit that these creatures have," Steenberg wrote in the video's description.

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