David Quammen’s essay, “The Face of a Spider,” is a humorous exploration of the mankind's relation to other species. A particularly intriguing idea enters at the end of the essay, when Quammen is making his ever beloved “eye contact with a tarantula.” When he stares it down, “the animal hid its face in distrust.” Humans tend to live their lives thinking that everything unlike them is untrustworthy. However, the author’s encounter with a tarantula supposes that other species could very well think we are the great evil to be feared in the night. The world does not actually only exist from the human’s point of view. Quammen even wonders “how ugly I look to the spider.” We as human beings see ourselves as the epitome of beauty, unable to quite