### id260586412 spiders are clever > Behaviors that can be described as “cognitive,” as opposed to automatic responses, could be fairly common among spiders, says Dimitrov, coauthor of a study on [spider diversity](https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-ento-061520-083414) published in the 2021 *Annual Review of Entomology*. From [orb weavers](https://knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2018/sticky-science-evolution-spiderwebs) that [adjust the way they build their webs](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2390229) based on the type of prey they are catching to ghost spiders that can learn to associate a reward [with the smell of vanilla](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1570-7458.2008.00669.x), there’s more going on in spider brains than they commonly get credit for. - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01fqd2sxpag5f7q64hnvmyrpys) - [[Spiders are Much Smarter than You Think by Betsy Mason#id260586412 spiders are clever|View in Vault]]