Hvem styrer egentlig Amazonas – jaguaren eller myrerne?
De største dyr får ofte mest opmærksomhed. Men det er edderkopper, biller, tusindben og myrer, der holder regnskovens økosystem i gang. Faktisk er omkring 80 % af alle kendte dyrearter på Jorden leddyr.
I denne episode dykker vi ned i Amazonas' fascinerende verden af leddyr – fra gigantiske rovedderkopper og giftige skolopendre til møgbiller og hærmyrer!
I episoden kan du høre om:
Verdens største fugleedderkop og den berygtede bananedderkop
Sociale edderkopper, der lever i kolonier med tusindvis af individer
Kæmpeskolopendre, der kan jage flagermus
Amazonas møgbiller
Kuglemyrer med verdens mest smertefulde stik
Hvordan Hærmyrer og fugle samarbejder
Billeder af
Bertrand Krafft, Laurie J. Cookson, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Fritz Geller-Grimm, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Akio Tanikawa, CC BY-SA 2.5 , via Wikimedia Commons
Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Katka Nemčoková, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Hectonichus, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Erin Mills, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
CostaPPPR, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
April Nobile / © AntWeb.org
Videnskabelige kilder
Martins, Jonas & Almeida, Marllus Rafael & Procópio, Rudi & Lira, André. (2024). Cannibalism in Tityus metuendus Pocock, 1897 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from the Brazilian Amazon. REVISTA CHILENA DE ENTOMOLOGÍA. 50. 57-61. 10.35249/rche.50.1.24.08.
Andresen, E. (2002). Dung beetles in a Central Amazonian rainforest and their ecological role as secondary seed dispersers. Ecological Entomology, 27(3), 257-270. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2311.2002.00408.x
Delabie, J. H. C., Dejean, A., Leponce, M., Longino, J. T., Orivel, J., Touchard, A., & Compin, A. (2025). Ant Diversity and Stratification in an Amazonian Rainforest. Ecology and evolution, 15(12), e72793. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.72793
Andre kilder
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/insects-invertebrates/goliath-tarantula
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/facts/goliath-birdeater
https://www.iflscience.com/goliath-birdeater-tarantula-the-worlds-biggest-spider-is-deadly-and-delicious-71459
https://www.livescience.com/41591-brazilian-wandering-spiders.html
https://www.sciencealert.com/spider-venom-that-causes-penile-necrosis-could-work-as-an-alternative-to-viagra
https://www.wandering-spiders.net/ancylometes/natural-history/#c2059
https://www.wandering-spiders.net/ancylometes/introduction/
https://www.rainforestcruises.com/guides/spiders-of-the-amazon
https://www.iflscience.com/a-giant-centipede-that-lurks-in-the-amazon-is-a-bat-hunting-specialist-69845
https://www.si.edu/collections/snapshot/titan-beetle
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-the-biggest-beetle-in-the-world.html
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/invertebrates/beetles/rhinoceros-beetle
https://www.thebogotapost.com/hercules-beetle-meet-the-hug-bug-in-the-colombian-amazon/37970/
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-the-biggest-beetle-in-the-world.html
https://antwiki.org/wiki/Dinoponera
https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Eciton
https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Gigantiops_destructor
https://antwiki.org/wiki/Cephalotes
https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Phragmosis
https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Anelosimus_eximius/
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/insects-invertebrates/bullet-ant-painful-sting
https://antwiki.org/wiki/Cephalotes
https://www.si.edu/spotlight/buginfo/bugnos
https://www.livescience.com/25513-rainforest-arthropod-diversity.html
https://pattedyrforening.dk/pattedyr/
https://fodboldbaner.wil.dk/