Het Leven der Dieren, Deel 3, Hoofdstuk 5: De Spinachtigen

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Het Leven der Dieren, Deel 3, Hoofdstuk 5: De Spinachtigen

by Alfred Edmund Brehm

NL·~4 hours·26 chapters

Chapters

26 total
1

DE WORMDUIZENDPOOTEN (Protracheata).

1:34
2

DE SPINACHTIGEN (Arachnoidea).

4:03
3

EERSTE ORDE. - DE SOLPUGEN (Solifugae).

2:29
4

TWEEDE ORDE. - DE SCHORPIOENEN (Scorpionina).

10:54
5

DERDE ORDE. - DE BASTAARDSCHORPIOENEN (Pseudoscorpiones).

1:45
6

VIERDE ORDE. - DE SCHORPIOENSPINNEN (Pedipalpi).

1:29
7

VIJFDE ORDE. - DE BASTAARDSPINNEN (Opiliones).

4:41
8

ZESDE ORDE. - DE ECHTE SPINNEN (Araneina).

1:14:10
9

ZEVENDE ORDE. - DE MIJTEN (Acarina).

29:27
10

ACHTSTE ORDE. - DE WORMSPINNEN (Linguatulida).

2:39

Description

In this lively scientific journey, listeners are taken into the hidden world of the curious “worm‑lunged” creatures that bridge the gap between annelids and true arthropods. The narrator unpacks the anatomy of the velvet‑like Peripatus, highlighting their trunk of numerous segments, paired clawed feet and the remarkable tracheal openings that link them to the air. Along the way, the tale of their tropical habitats and live‑bearing reproduction brings these rare animals vividly to life.

The focus then widens to the great tapestry of arachnids, whose bodies split into a fused cephalothorax and an often unsegmented abdomen. Listeners learn how their solitary eyes, cheliceral “jaw‑like” appendages, and diverse breathing tricks—from book‑lung plates to simple skin diffusion—set each order apart. With over four thousand species outlined, the description paints a clear picture of their evolution, diversity and the subtle ways they differ from their crustacean cousins.

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Language

nl

Duration

~4 hours (263K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg

Release date

2020-02-01

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Alfred Edmund Brehm

Alfred Edmund Brehm

1829–1884

A lively 19th-century zoologist and travel writer, he helped bring the animal world into ordinary homes through vivid, popular books. His name became especially well known through Brehms Tierleben, a landmark work of natural history writing.

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