What Jumping Spiders Teach Us About Color

You can watch the full-length documentary “Spider Vision: Decoding Color” on Curiosity Stream - coming soon.

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Adam Foreman, Anton Ragin, Balkrishna Heroor, Bertrand Serlet, Bill Linder, Blake Byers, Bruce, Burt Humburg, Chris Harper, Dave Kircher, David Johnston, Evgeny Skvortsov, Garrett Mueller, Gnare, gpoly, I. H., John H. Austin, Jr., john kiehl, Josh Hibschman, Juan Benet, KeyWestr, Kyi, Lee Redden, Marinus Kuivenhoven, Martin, Matthias Wrobel, Max Paladino, Meekay, meg noah, Michael Krugman, Orlando Bassotto, Paul Peijzel, Richard Sundvall, Sam Lutfi, Stephen Wilcox, Tj Steyn, Toni, TTST, Ubiquity Ventures, wolfee

Production by Day's Edge fully funded by National Science Foundation (Grant #IOS 1831767)

Featuring: Dr. Nathan Morehouse (University of Cincinnati); Olivia Harris (University of Cincinnati), Dr. Megan Porter (University of Hawaii); Dr. Lisa Taylor (University of Florida); Dr. Wayne Maddison (University of British Columbia); and Dr. Emma Alexander (Northwestern University)

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Directed by Neil Losin
Written by Neil Losin
Edited by Neil Losin, Andy Laub, and Alan Saunders
Animated by Root House Studio and David Hutchinson
Filmed by Neil Losin, Nate Dappen, Alex Wiles, Andy Laub, and Barend van der Watt
Produced by Day’s Edge Productions

Repurposed for YouTube by Derek Muller, Casper Mebius, Petr Lebedev, Peter Nelson, Trenton Oliver, Emily Zhang, Giovanna Utichi, Rob Beasley Spence, Emily Taylor, and Gregor Čavlović

Thumbnail contributions by Ren Hurley and Peter Sheppard

Video/photos supplied by Day’s Edge Productions and Storyblocks
Music by Adrian Younge, PBS, Epidemic Sound, and Jonny Hyman

[vanKarsie]

Please dont do betterhelp sponsorships

[hpcuthulu]

Reminder of BetterHelp's past controversy of selling user-data to third-party advertisers.

[ChrisShannon]

On the scientist's monitor at 16:49 the label reads ""Do not install windows updates upon pain of death!!!"

[frigaid]

Uh oh, Veritasium might want to review its sponsors before airing

[sr_meia_noite]

>"Or am I?"
>No VSauce music

What a strange feeling

[theelephantintheroom]

good to see others calling out the betterhelp sponsorship

[Uesurii_San]

I feel sorry for the spider stick on the magnet. "Oooh! Cool color, let me go and- why am I not moving?"

[tannerblack]

Betterhelp doesn't even know if their therapist have license, read it in their agreement

[chrislee]

Mr Spider called BetterHelp, got a magnet glued to his head.

[timmccarthy]

"So what do you do for work?"

"I attach magnets to spiders' heads"

[suzannebrookes]

Aside from the sponsorship... This is fantastic to watch, jumping spiders are amazing and learning more about their vision and evolution is super interesting.

[IraWahlmeier]

Massive props to the videographer(s). Some of these shots were seriously incredible and creative.

[k.ssashwat]

0.1% comments about the actual video
99.9% comments about BetterHelp 💀

[antoniosalgado]

Better help literally admitted in their websites that they don’t hire professionals until at some point they deleted that section on their site.

[the-boy-who-lived]

"I am looking at a yellow ball"
"Or am I?"
No Vsauce music?

[StrawberryTartSalt]

It’s great that you got Wayne Maddison to come on for this. He’s kind of a celebrity in the jumping spider world.
And I was not expecting that genus Mexigonus can’t see red!!

[DrunkenMalkavian]

Seriously, a betterhelp sponsorship? Great video though.

[behzad]

That experiment with the tiny magnet glued to their head, holding a ball that's being tracked in 3d and mapped to the movements they see on the screen was wild

[pravaris]

I noticed the great sound effects used when the jumping spiders rotate, and the little mechanical whine during the microscope scene.
Whoever you are, sfx person, awesome work.

[Lisalisa-vqnd]

4:15 I'm willing not only to say a spider looks cute, but to go so far as to use the word adorable. I love love love jumping spiders. Always have. Always will.