The future of spider sounds These findings echo work assembled by Oxford University back in 2014, where they found that a spider’s innate sense of pitch allows it to engage in the sophisticated tuning of its web. “The spider can actually pluck or bounce the silk strings, and it can monitor the echoes that come back so it can locate objects,” revealed lecturer Beth Mortimer at the time. Exciting communication implications have arisen from both studies - it might be possible for spiders to create their own note sequences to contact with other spiders. It could even give humans a pathway into understanding the highly intelligent arachnids better by speaking in their own language.