Heteropoda Davidbowie
German scientist Peter Jager had discovered a new type of spiders and decided to name it after the infamous British musician David Bowie. This cool news was spread out by The Daily Telegraph on September 7. This unique type of spiders, which is now called Heteropoda davidbowie was discovered by Jager in Malasya; special quality is in it’s deep yellow hair. So far there is no clear information if the “guy” is dangerous to human beings. The Daily Telegraph supposes that Jager named this spider after Bowie because a musician had popularised this sort of species in his songs. The whole deal is in the fact that spiders were mentioned in Bowie’s legendary album “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars”, which was released in 1972. Peter Jager said that by giving famous names to rare species, scientists are able to bring some attention to the problem of their extinction. Pretty good idea, especially if David Bowie will notice his old friends from Mars. So to speak, Bowie is not the first musician to ‘give out’ names to spiders; in 2008 American biologist Jason Bond has named another rare type of spiders Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi after Neil Young.