Cute little Jumping Spider with Boxing Gloves from Ecuador

Jumping spiders, Salticidae are the largest family of spiders. This little guy was filmed in the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador. Its pedipalps end in two bulbs which look like a pair of boxing gloves but are actually the male genitalia.
Jumping spider do not build a web to trap insects, but jump on their prey and grab it with the jaws. Jumping spiders still produce silk for safety lines as can be seen at 20" in the video and also to build a tent as shelter from bad weather and to sleep at night. As most spiders they have four pairs of eyes, which give them a 360-degree view of the world. Their large frontal eyes are build like telescopes and provide them with very sharp vision. A mobile retina allows them to scan the object they are looking at.