‘I didn’t mean to hurt you’: new research shows funnel webs don’t set out to kill humans

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news: 10 news outlets
blogs: 3 blogs
twitter: 45 X users

facebook: 4 Facebook pages
reddit: 2 Redditors

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Title	‘I didn’t mean to hurt you’: new research shows funnel webs don’t set out to kill humans
Published by	The Conversation
DOI	10.64628/aa.3wysjkha6
Authors	Fry, Bryan, Herzig, Volker
Abstract	Funnel webs are considered one of Australia's most fearsome spiders, but their ability to kill humans is by accident rather than design.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country	Count	As %
Australia	18	40%
United States	3	7%
Canada	2	4%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1	2%
Finland	1	2%
Saint Lucia	1	2%
Zimbabwe	1	2%
Sweden	1	2%
Curaçao	1	2%
Other	1	2%
Unknown	15	33%

Demographic breakdown

Type
Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	41	91%
Scientists	3	7%
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors)	1	2%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 123. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 October 2024.

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