# Has Any Species Adapted th Travel by Rolling?

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**Created:** [January 27, 2009, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-species-adapted-th-travel-by-rolling/483158 "2009-01-27T00:43:50Z")\
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> [@Stealth\_Potato](#):
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> EDIT: actually, I’m not sure, but that Youtube video may be talking about a different kind of spider. That one only seems to roll downhill as a means of escape, while the spider recently discovered by Professor Rechenberg uses it as a form of locomotion even across flat ground.

Yes, I do believe it’s a different animal – [here’s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsnNmChDXAc) Rechenberg’s rolling spider on YouTube; I’m newly amazed every time again when I see that video. It just seems so unreal!

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