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This is Scientific American 60-Second Earth. I'm David Biello. Your minute begins now.

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The grasshopper is a carefree creature…according to Aesop's fables.

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But in real life, grasshoppers can have a lot to worry about.

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For example, grasshoppers get quite anxious when they know there's a deadly spider about, and it puts them off their food.

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Since their food is grass, nervous grasshoppers leave more grass intact to perform photosynthesis,

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turning sunlight and carbon dioxide into plant food.

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More CO2 in these grasses and their roots means less CO2 in the air.

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That's according to a new paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Yale researchers tracked CO2 as it cycled through Plexiglass cages containing just grass, grass and grasshoppers, or grass, grasshoppers and spiders.

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Grasses stored 1.4 times as much carbon with spiders about than when grasshoppers were allowed to roam unmolested.

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That's even better than when there were no grasshoppers at all because nervous grasshopper grazing did little damage but spurred greener growth.

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In other words, spiders protect the climate, just by being spiders and scaring grasshoppers.

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Similar results may also prove true in ecosystems with larger predators, whether wolves and caribou or lions and zebras.

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Keeping predators around may be another way to combat climate change.

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