姿が鳥の糞に見えるのでトリノフンダマシと呼ばれます。鳥の糞に擬態することで、捕食者から身を守っています。
似ているとはいえ、不名誉な名前を付けられたと思います。
This creature is a spider. It is a well known kind, but we who are not a spider researcher hardly see it.
Because the exterior looks like the feces of birds, it was named "torinofundamashi" in Japanese. The first part, torinofun, means the feces of birds. The last part, damashi, means trick.
They protect themselves from the predator by making mimesis to the feces of the bird.
Though resembling, they got an honor-less name.
