Spiders: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Spiders, credited to Cecil Warburton, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox reading of Spiders by Cecil Warburton.Read in English by Sue Anderson. The mental capacity of spiders; web architecture; spiders that live under water, even though they need air to breath; spiders that mimic ants; spiders that mimic bird droppings; cannibalism; odd spider mating rituals--these are just some of the topics in this lively book about the modes and habits of common spiders, written by a zoologist. ( Sue Anderson)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Spiders
• Author credits: Cecil Warburton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 15
• Listed recording duration: 3:55:17

Catalogue topics

• nature
• spiders

Track guide

1. 01 - A Survey of the Field — 10:11
2. 02 - What is a Spider? — 12:36
3. 03 - The Circular Snare — 10:59
4. 04 - Mental Powers of Spiders — 17:31
5. 05 - Trap-Snares and Balloons — 14:59
6. 06 - Agelena — 14:16
7. 07 - Water-Spiders — 10:06
8. 08 - Crab-Spiders, Mimicry — 10:34
9. 09 - Wolf-Spiders — 32:15
10. 10 - Jumping Spiders — 17:40
11. 11 - Theraphosid Spiders — 32:22
12. 12 - Stridulation — 8:24
13. 13 - Spinning Apparatus and Feet — 18:42
14. 14 - The Enemies of Spiders — 12:23
15. 15 - Some Concluding Reflextions — 12:19

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