Obviously you can't give them an IQ test but all the data I've seen (and I am no expert here) shows they are possible the smartest arthropod out there. There are of course different species of jumping spider so mileage may vary.
Restricting the word "insects" to hexapods is a modern convention that does not have any basis in etymology.
Aristotle used the word "insects" for all terrestrial arthropods and this was followed for millennia until the last two centuries when someone preferred to use "Insecta" instead of "Hexapoda", without giving any reason for this, and others followed this taxonomy.
Even so, the exact extent of the term "insects" varies between biologists, because some do not include all wingless hexapods under "insects".
In an informal discussion, I do not see any mistake in using the word "insects" with its original meaning from Aristotle, which is also the meaning that can be encountered in a lot of old books. For unambiguous animal classification, the word "hexapods" is preferable.
This is a discussion about animal intelligence. Jumping spiders have a different brain layout than bees, which are formally insects. Other insects are more like the bee than spiders.
So in this case, it matters that spiders are not in fact insects in the strict sense.
Are they? They are smarter than web-spinning spiders but I've never read anything suggesting they are smarter than bees.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn3357
Obviously you can't give them an IQ test but all the data I've seen (and I am no expert here) shows they are possible the smartest arthropod out there. There are of course different species of jumping spider so mileage may vary.
That’s definitely the premise Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time haha
I've watched videos of them stalking prey and they seem extremely intelligent for their size. It's very impressive.
Bees' intelligence relies on them being a hive organism.
Spiders are not insects though https://www.burkemuseum.org/collections-and-research/biology...
Restricting the word "insects" to hexapods is a modern convention that does not have any basis in etymology.
Aristotle used the word "insects" for all terrestrial arthropods and this was followed for millennia until the last two centuries when someone preferred to use "Insecta" instead of "Hexapoda", without giving any reason for this, and others followed this taxonomy.
Even so, the exact extent of the term "insects" varies between biologists, because some do not include all wingless hexapods under "insects".
In an informal discussion, I do not see any mistake in using the word "insects" with its original meaning from Aristotle, which is also the meaning that can be encountered in a lot of old books. For unambiguous animal classification, the word "hexapods" is preferable.
> Restricting the word "insects" to hexapods is a modern convention that does not have any basis in etymology.
This is one of those very rare cases in which "entomology" or "etymology" might have been chosen without the intended meaning being clear. :)
This is a discussion about animal intelligence. Jumping spiders have a different brain layout than bees, which are formally insects. Other insects are more like the bee than spiders.
So in this case, it matters that spiders are not in fact insects in the strict sense.
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But they are arthropods.